Writers have a tendency to downplay their expertise from the academic podium; even Borges, a literary oracle if one ever existed, equivocates in his own Norton Lectures, "I have only my perplexities to offer you".
During the spring and summer months, the academic podium on campus becomes a sea of colorful maxi dresses and skirts floating from class to class.
Another valedictorian season has come to a close, with students throughout the region having proudly stepped up to the podium to deliver their graduation speeches and receive the accolades that come from being the highest academic performer in their school.
Taking the podium, Criss talked of the L.A. Phil's music program, YOLA, which provides free instruments, music training and academic support to children in South Los Angeles and L.A.'s Rampart District.
Cerebral creatures by and large, they will typically have spent many hours of preparation on the score before they get anywhere near the podium – often this will be of a most rigorous, even academic nature, encompassing historical documents such as letters, technical performance manuals from the period in question and biographies.
At the 2016 End-of-Summer Resubmittedmposium, each intern submitted a 2-page report in the style of an academic paper, gave a podium presentation of their individual laboratory research, and presented their solution to the Innovation Challenge project with their group.
She sat with back erect and eyes trained on a podium arrayed with academics in gowns.
On the podium, Buddy shocks an academic gathering by taking over Sherman and talking dirty.
On Sunday afternoon at Carnegie Hall, Vince Lee, the orchestra's assistant conductor, opened its second concert of the season with a powerful, hefty account of Brahms's "Academic Festival" Overture before turning over the podium to Ryan McAdams, who became music director in December.
The Gopher sophomore, who quit school amid the university's academic scandal, received a chorus of boos before he took the podium to meet Stern.
"It took me three years to get on the podium, and I finally did it," added Brown, who is heading to university at Purdue on an academic scholarship.
