Word: scholasticism
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Moreover the Coach has been beset by injuries. Barth Royer, a high-scoring forward and leader came back from summer vacation with a bad back, hurt his knee over Christmas and then developed mononucleosis. He's played only one game at full strength during the Ivy campaign, sparking the Crimson...
THE prose style of Harvard's course catalogue can make a literate student pretty drowsy. Most programs are chosen by word of mouth, and among those students who plow regularly through their catalogues, there is a tendency to dismiss whole areas of human endeavor, like Soil Mechanics and Urdu, which...
Invitation to Revolt. For black G.I.s coming home can be hell. San Francisco's Carl Witherspoon, 21, was a track star and scholastic achiever before he joined the Marines. In Viet Nam he collected a Bronze Star and two bullets in the gut. After nine months in hospitals, Witherspoon...
With the snows of winter comes a traumatic experience for 1,400,000 of the nation's preparatory and high school students: they must suffer through the three-hour Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Much of the agony stems from the exaggerated belief of many students that their S.A.T. scores will...
The recipients are chosen for literary and scholastic achievement, good citizenship, and "physical vigor, as shown by fondness for and success in sports."