Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Academic probation abolished for juniors and seniors.
Once Wallace gets our gawking attention, his deviants become like the Krafft-Ebing case histories in Psychopathia Sexualis, grotesque illustrations of fundamental errors in personal relations. To what point? Wallace suggests coyly that Hideous Men is meant to interrogate the reader, to elicit fresh responses to horrors that have lost...
At the big schools, hundreds of students compete for the relatively few spots on the elite teams and squads, which can make everyone else feel like nobodies. And that feeling, as events have shown, can contribute to private rage and public tragedy. "We want to make sure the kids feel...
This rude, curt and genuinely self-absorbed behavior, all in the name of academic focus, reminds me of an appropriate adage from the Adams House tunnels, that keeps me in check on a daily basis:
This month has allowed students to prioritize their own agendas, in the name of academic intensity. Soon, however, we will be rejoining collective groups and we will be forced to sacrifice our immediate needs for a common goal.