Sentence examples for academic virtue from inspiring English sources

Competing, in a sense, for the loyalty of his students with a new teacher who has been brought in to help the brightest of the bright gain admission to Oxford and Cambridge, Hector is clearly the more sympathetic of the two, a believer in learning for learning's sake, a personable eccentric and a paragon of academic virtue — who also happens to make a habit of groping his students.

Basically you have to be an absolute paragon of academic virtue to get in.

Within a decade, the man who gave Impressionism its name was outpacing even Corot, throwing the old-fashioned Academic virtues of finish to the winds in works such as La Pointe de la Hève, Sainte-Adresse (1864).

needed to be successful in football in order to be successful as an academic institution," meaning that football would be a megaphone through which L.S.U. could shout its academic virtues to interested students, potential donors and legislators who controlled the financial purse strings of the university.

One is the requirement that student slots in colleges and universities and competitive private schools should be open to all applicants with applicants ranked by their ability to learn and other academic virtues and selected on these academic grounds (provided they can pay the tuition and fees).

While it should, in general, be construed broadly, as integrity of the intellect, and thus applicable to anyone who thinks, here we will concentrate on the integrity of the intellectual, or integrity as the academic's virtue, as Susan Haack puts it (1976, 59).

Wood has the academic's virtues, the opposite of the novelist's.

In that case, what should be taught are academic or intellectual virtues like thoroughness, perseverance, intellectual honesty.

• Many college football programs seem to have lost their moral compass, and the wildly exaggerated importance of the sport in American life is now eating away at the fabric of our academic and civic virtues.

Philosophical coherence is an academic, not a political, virtue.

"In truth, my four years at the Naval Academy were not notable for exemplary virtue or academic achievement but, rather, for the impressive catalog of demerits I managed to accumulate," said Mr. McCain, who graduated fifth from the bottom of his class.