Sentence examples for academic rivalry from inspiring English sources

Lovborg and Tesman were youthful friends driven apart by academic rivalry.

Ignorance, commercial greed and academic rivalry ensured that it took a long time for the manuscripts to reach professional scholars.

Smith's third novel exposes the comedy of cultural difference and academic rivalry while also capturing the intimacies of family life.

A VENERABLE academic rivalry has found its way to the kitchen -- to the kitchen bookshelf, that is.

Students at Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law took their academic rivalry onto the basketball court last night for the first Dean's Cup.

Ohl gets round this difficulty with his contemporary setting: among other things, Mr Dick is a tale of academic rivalry in which Dickens is the prize.

Perez Lugo attributed the resistance to academic rivalries between archaeologists, anthropologists and others who study Mayonihka.

Mercier, himself a professor, understands the soft sniping that sustains academic rivalries and draws wry comedy from them.

In the annals of academic rivalries, perhaps none is fiercer than the crosstown one between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It is true that some of the work done here was overshadowed by the oxygen-secretion controversy – that is, the arguments that greeted Haldane's suggestion that passive diffusion of oxygen across the lung epithelium is replaced or supplemented by active transport in low-PO2 andospheres – academicemic rivalries about such proposals were to significantly affect the later expeditions to Everest.

In the elite academic world, contention is rife and rivalry is maddening, egos are fragile and stars can easily walk.