Understanding the "lived economies" of the archipelago is a continuing challenge for scholars from a wide array of academic disciples.
Yet, just after Morison's death, a colleague, Bernard Bailyn, observed, "There is no 'Morison school.' " Because he wrote more for the public than for his fellow-historians, Morison has few academic disciples today, and, if the chain reaction of dullness continues unbroken, Morison is as much to blame as anybody.
Robert Watts Thornburg, Dean of the Chapel at Boston University, said that when he expressed concern about disciples' academic problems, Baird gave him a list of the BU disciples' grades.
She was perhaps our foremost itinerant poet-professor, a sort of contemporary Basho, whose life on the academic road earned her countless disciples of all ages.
Astronomical data, textual research and the rediscovery of an ancient Jewish calendar have convinced a Cambridge academic that Christ and the disciples' Last Supper actually took place on a Wednesday.
A disciple of the US academic Richard Thaler, who developed the "nudge" theory that people should be encouraged and not forced to change their behaviour, Hilton has been the decisive figure in drawing up the Tories' Big Society theme.
what's going on... isn't academic instruction at all, or even disciple, it's therapy.
The most popular expression of this approach was perhaps the work of Roland Barthes, including Mythologies (1957), but his work fragmented into various branches linguistic, genetic, psychobiographical, sociocultural each with its exponents and disciples increasingly embroiled in academic, and often abstruse, debate.
His efforts to educate the Australian musical public in the mid-1930s were indifferently received, and did not attract disciples; writing in 2010, the academic and critic Roger Covell identifies only one significant contemporary Australian musician – the English-born horn player, pianist and conductor David Stanhope – working in the Grainger idiom.
Rhetorical argument had its classical base in the field of oratory and implied a skeptical epistemology, not the radical and extreme skepticism of the Greek Pyrrhonists but the more limited skepticism of the Academic philosophers of Hellenistic Greece and their Roman disciples.
