Gitlin makes this point with respect to claims that the present-day university is filled with "tenured radicals," to use Roger Kimball's recent catchphrase: "For the most part, to my knowledge, the so-called '60s graduates who went into the academy were not involved deeply in '60s radicalism until the very end.
In 1870, when the papacy lost the city of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy, the Sapienza became the basis of a royal university, which in 1935 became the present-day state university.
With the given trend in present-day American university education and now the decision by president of Indiana University to allow Bob Knight to continue after his appalling gyrations as a university coach, only edges toward the conviction that American universities are becoming trade schools with professional sports teams.
The present-day preponderance of university degree holders does not seem to have changed this much, perhaps because the majority have a background in humanities rather than sciences (I tried to check whether the Guardian held any analysis of educational backgrounds of staff; it doesn't).
The course also offers a forum for students to address questions on present-day aspects of the university.
From the first time I got drunk, at 14 – having boldly decided that a two-litre bottle of White Lightning cider was the best way to get over a breakup (and land me in hospital) – to guzzling beer through a funnel while at university, to present-day bouts of getting hammered in the kitchen, it's been a bumpy, sick-making ride.
Tesla was born in present-day Croatia in 1856, and graduated from university in Graz, Austria.
His own best-known novel, however, Tōsei shoseikatagi (1885 86; "The Character of Present-Day Students"), depicting the foolish adventures of a group of contemporary university students, suffered from the same weaknesses that he decried.
Two hundred and twenty-five years ago, North Carolina established the nation's oldest public university, choosing as its home a particularly inviting poplar tree in present-day Chapel Hill.
The first is set in a university creative writing class around the mid-1980s, though it could easily be a present-day setting.
