I learned much from the true narratives of characters, academic and para-academic, who might otherwise strike one as fictional.
The system was developed in the 19th century in the old east-coast universities, with the admirable aim of promoting good character and academic achievement.
4. Writing for the Public Will Help Clarify Ideas In my last article, I was accused of being unfair or naive or wrong about the character of academic writing.
Candler was impressed with the character and academic credentials of the young scholar, and assisted him in becoming a professor of Latin language and literature at Emory College, a position Sledd held from 1898 to 1902.
They came roaring out from the back of the right-wing cave last week when the Heritage Foundation published an attack on immigration reform cobbled together by a character whose academic record includes some extreme (and extremely dubious) notions about the intelligence of Hispanics.
"Gibraltar" jettisons Stephen Dedalus, the young academic character whose story threads through the novel, to focus on the advertising salesman Leopold Bloom and his younger wife, Molly.
Ah, but the sweeper's cousin (follow me closely here) just happens to be married to the head of the history department at Columbia, where Perlman's other main character, a Jewish academic about to be denied tenure, just happens to work.
Normally the character of an academic is of marginal relevance to his or her work.
Owing to its technical and academic character, analytic philosophy did not at first influence more than a relatively small number of Latin American philosophers.
Whereas Futures Research was more focused on scientific methods, on forecasting and planning, in the USA the term Futurology circulated in a more populist sense, whereas Ossip Flechtheim in the Federal Republic of Germany sought to emphasise the explicit academic character of Futurologie.
But for three generations now, we have shifted the prime value of education from character development to academic achievement, and as Lincoln predicted, achievement, not character is now primarily valued in our government, institutions and culture.
