Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The delegates threshed some of their differences thin, but left most for later meetings to handle. With thinkers' caution they decided to spend the next two academic years preparing statements of their agreement, to meet again in the fall of 1941 and 1942 to work on their great project...
And even this was only a false beginning, because Eaton, Harvard's first chief executive, was fired, and "For a whole academic year (1639-40) Harvard College was deserted; and it must have seemed to many pessimists that it would never reopen."
At the trial Mistress Eaton confessed to her culinary sins during Harvard's first abortive academic year and admitted that she never served beef, that the bread was made of sour meal, and that sometimes the beer gave out for a week at a time.
To assist in the operation of the new program Harvard has appointed Alfred D. Simpson, Assistant Commissioner of the New York State Department of Education, as Visiting Lecturer in Education; John F. Sly, Professor of Politics, Princeton University, as Consultant in Public Administration; and Ernest E. Fuller, President of Gila...
Folkways is not so startling today as when it was published 33 years ago. Its basic theme - that the development of society is governed by hard evolutionary principles-is now taken for granted by every educated person. At that time this knowledge was still largely an academic possession. The first...