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.
At the location of present-day University of Montana, the lake once had a depth of 950 feet.
The question thus becomes: what do we know, and to what extent do we agree upon the social and moral responsibilities of the present-day universities? .
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.
