Word: exoduses
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...book of the Bible (almost any one that is part of the cultural deposit of stories and lyrics—Genesis, Exodus, Ruth, Job, Psalms, one of the Gospels, Revelation). Because of the separation of church and state in the United States, there is no academic subject in which the Bible is taught to [undergraduates] in elementary or high school, and many remain unacquainted with it. It would be a pity to miss these books, drawn on so extensively by literature, the visual arts, and music...
Fiction sales have plummeted. Poetry has become a fetish. Parents are terrified their children will become playwrights; it means they will never move out. The exodus of undergraduates from the humanities to occupational majors—coupled with the devaluation of literature and art in our society—has driven certain humanist disciplines to the brink of extinction. From the early 1970s to the mid 1980s, the number of English majors in the United States dwindled from 64,000 to 34,000. Despite the fact that more students across the country are attending college than ever before, less than...
...that biology professors have begun the exodus from their long-standing Cambridge facility to make way for the incoming stem cell researchers, the Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department’s plans to eventually inhabit the Allston Science Complex are growing increasingly uncertain...
Some members of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology have begun the long-awaited exodus out of their laboratories to make room for a centralized space for stem cell researchers...
...female Harvard Business School professor remembers the year 2007 as the “mass exodus...