Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The future was crystal clear for Peter S. Manasantivongs '99. Well, it was at least translucent. The applied math concentrator had long since abandoned academic ties to his field and was set to pursue a master of philosophy and linguistics at Cambridge University. All that was left was the arduous...
But when the benefactor materialized, it was to take Manasantivongs in a new direction, far from Cambridge and academic plans altogether. In recent weeks, the Eliot House resident has decided to defer admission to Cambridge and travel instead to Western Europe in search of excolonial communities, from Africans living in...
What Townsend wants is to keep up the "momentum" he has built as an undergraduate by entering the accelerated medical school program at Duke in August. Rather than a traditional four-year program that includes two initial years of academic study before interning, the Duke program condenses the first two...
Townsend acknowledges the program is more "non-traditional" than what he mighthave faced at Washington University in St. Louis,but says the demands, as well as the location, arewhat make Duke attractive. Harvard, he says, gavehim a chance to try many activities while buildinga solid academic record, and the pattern...
Student leaders say that Lewis' focus on education and academic life at Harvard have had a quiet influence over the success or failure of student-driven proposals.