Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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U.S. News & World Report ranks Harvard third after six years in the top spot, bruising egos and putting a damper on traditional cries of "safety school" during the year's Harvard-Yale Game. Students spend the academic year denying the validity of such rankings but seem pleased when the College...
But the rumor is only one of a number of similar horror stories that paint HLS as a place full of backstabbing students concerned only with getting ahead, an unusually hard and arbitrary grading system and faculty more concerned with their own academic work than interacting with students.
Some others contend that the perception of HLS as anything less than a top-notch facility is merely a misperception--and a work of rumor--and fails to reflect the school's reputation in the academic legal field and among potential employers.
Even critics of the school agree that HLS "pretty clearly" retains its top academic reputation even over competitors like Yale or Stanford, according to Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60.
And while praising many aspects of the academic opportunities at the school, some students still acknowledge the prevailing sense that HLS trails other top schools in the realm of quality of life.