Word: scholasticism
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After an 1884 ruling by Harvard's Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, all official play in football was abolished for the scholastic year 1885--because of what the committee labeled undue violence.
Texans may cling more tightly to the Texas myth as they sense the ground shifting under them. In many ways, the Texas myth and reality are going their separate ways. The state is gradually moving toward a service economy. For all the lore of cattle and oil, the action in...
Thanks to a printer's goof, several hundred students who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test last Saturday will have to go through the three-hour ordeal all over again.
A year ago, Bill Watson of the University of Minnesota-Duluth took the award, which is presented annually by the Decathalon Athletic Club in Bloomington, Minn. The official criteria for the award are athletic ability, scholastic achievement and leadership.
Much harder to pity, or even tolerate, is the professor who wants to lecture. This young, ambitious person is so intent on making a name for him or herself that he or she is determined to say something new--anything new. Sitting in class listening to this scholastic yuppie say...