Word: classwork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another experience that classwork could not substitute for was his summer in Beijing...
There's joy at seeing beloved giftladen relatives and excitement about a weekend of activities that include an inverse relation between classwork and good food. But above all, students said they have felt a nagging fear about just what might happen when their parents hit the Yard...
...Harvard dorm room studying 15 hours a day (as Cotton noted Thomas Jefferson allegedly did) prepares most students for anything other than a life of elitism and inaction is profoundly faulted. Where is the logic in supposing that people who contentedly spend four years doing nothing but classwork will suddenly rise from their undergraduate stupor and be ready (or qualified) to change the world? And where is the logic in supposing that it is possible to extricate oneself from society for long enough to graduate summa...
...School has had in place for some time a "mandatory" class attendance policy. The 1997-1998 catalog contains the following language: "Classwork is essential to the educational program at the Law School. Regular attendance at classes and participation in classwork are expected of all students." The wisdom of this "mandatory" attendance policy was not at issue in the Legal Education Committee's deliberations last semester...
This conclusion is both simplistic and unjust. It mistakes an indifference and impatience for tedious classwork with a spiritual malaise and selfish inwardness. These are two very distinct kinds of boredom--and they have very different implications. The first, the indifference, is a particular dissatisfaction, the outward sign that one's mind and one's priorities are elsewhere, for better or worse. The second type of boredom is a sickness. It is totalizing, spiritual and philosophical. College first-years these days are bored in the first sense only; they do not have their minds on their work because they...