Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The move, passed at the monthly meeting of the Faculty on the recommendation of the Committee on Educational policy, eliminated the wartime offerings of General Examinations in the summer term. Through the academic years 1918-49 and 1949-50 the exams will be given in January and May, while starting...
Under the watchful eyes of steel-helmeted police, the world's oldest university began its 1,006th academic year in Cairo last week. The cops were just a precaution in a land hot over the Palestine question: the 11,000 students at Al Azhar ("The Resplendent") University take their...
A new student at Al Azhar buys himself a high, tight academic turban, sharpens his reed quills, tucks his inkhorn into his belt, takes off his slippers, and enters Al Azhar mosque. There he joins one of the attentive circles of cross-legged students gathered at the feet of a...
"We can make use of academic forms without running the risk of becoming academic ourselves. ... Far from implying repetition of what has been, tradition presupposes the reality of what endures."
If this adviser represents an ideal, he also represents a small minority--a minority that is not likely to increase in size. Freshman advising will remain a casual business as long as Harvard remains a university college, as long as the majority of advisers are more concerned with their own...