Word: hollowness
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...Summers’ perennial refrain for science education—specifically, as he put it in his inaugural, that undergraduates should be able to “know a gene from a chromosome or the meaning of exponential growth.” What’s missing in this hollow rhetoric about the sciences is any real discussion of what science education consists of and how to teach it. Given the plenitude of undergraduate complaints about science cores, one must seriously question how feasible it is to grant every student, including the most science-phobic, Shakespeare-toting humanities junkie...
Nevertheless, the Undergraduate Council did good work last Sunday in making plans to endorse an “official” class ring. According to council members, this measure would reduce the price of the rings $100 to $200 for those extravagant souls with their hearts set on the hollow tokens of remembrance. At present, class rings are sold by several vendors whose modest sales volume compels them to charge exorbitant prices. With council sponsorship, complete with an official ceremony to confer the cherished symbols of opulence, a lucky retailer would capture most of the market. In turn, they would...
...these are no sixth-graders down at the local parish gym, and the clothing is no hollow Abercrombie-style fashion statement...
...returned my crumpled uniform a week later, renewing a promise made weeks earlier that I’d never go back. But the words rang hollow even before I managed to squeeze them through my lips. I had made the same promise one year before, only to quickly learn that escaping the clutches of that underworld isn’t so easy. Once you’re on the inside, no matter how averse you are to its sordid characters and no matter how badly you want to keep yourself from going back, chances are you’ll find...
...undergraduates at Stanford University. Trimesters would let students take nine courses in a year for the price of eight—three each term, with condensed courses providing a more concentrated academic experience without the frivolous projects. Competition from peer institutions and a shorter school year overall would hollow any excuses for a tuition hike. Although Stanford schedules its fall exams just before winter break, its very late start subjects it to the same criticisms encountered at Harvard: Students planning internships or work in the summer are stuck with a late return home, when it’s almost June...