"We are very zealous of guarding academic freedom and intellectual freedom of expression of professors," Montás said.
My father, Norman Macleod, who has died aged 90, was an academic engineer and zealous inventor, whose creations ranged from an artificial heart valve to windscreen wipers for motorcycle goggles.
I did not miss people criticizing other people's spelling when they were clearly pointing at typos, or attacking someone's word choice when they were just plain wrong or over-zealous, acting like editors at an academic journal.
As Liza Mundy reports in her excellent article for More Magazine, "How to Fail Successfully," Klawe "generally underestimated the extent to which the academic community would resist her zealous efforts to execute her mission.
"Fame High" focuses on Grace, a senior dancer struggling to reach beyond technical expertise; Brittany, a senior singer-musician who bypasses academics to seek immediate work; Ruby, a freshman actor who's zealous about her developing artistic identity; and Zak, a freshman jazz pianist whose teachers' lessons often counter his father's.
Needless to say, that much biblical exegesis could be dispiriting even to the most zealous grad student in medieval studies, which I then was, though my real, and secret, academic ambition was simply to read all the world's great and influential books.
Home Office officials said academic research indicated that while there had been some initial concerns about "over-zealous" referrals by teachers, they now had a good grasp of which young people needed help.
[from zealous.] With passionate ardour.
Most were zealous Zionists.
They were overly zealous".
