"I'd like to see him go to Harvard," Burt said, proud to say that his son, with a 97 average and 1400 board score, is wanted in such high academic places as well.
A fraternity called, for example, Sigma Nu will have brotherly links with many other Sigma Nus, and will also have a national office to co-ordinate such matters as insurance and fraternity rules.To outsiders, "fraternities" sound like academic places; but many of their members seem more interested in Dionysus than in Socrates, and their future does not look bright.
"Resources--in terms of people here--are deeper … than [at] most academic places.
But the "Studies" movement -- Women's Studies, American Studies -- and other forms of interdisciplinarity in the last third of the 20th century pushed back, representing a felt need to let life in its wholeness back in, to give social realities a greater existence in academic places.
Academics place an emphasis on breaking new ground, Molyneux says, and students and researchers are constantly running the risk of reinventing the wheel or missing landmark papers because of sheer volume.
The city's self-analysis, conducted by various academics, places little credence in the impact of the housing market on homelessness.
Since 1997, Mr. Nelson has enlisted the help of volunteer scientists, computer geeks and like-minded academics, placing about 75 of the matchbox-sized devices in such locales as New Zealand, France, India, China, Kenya, Alaska, San Francisco and New York.
