Scholar's world

Usage examples of academe.

Mainland academe fostered some attitudes she had heard about from her mother, but which were outside her experience after her upbringing in Hawaii: in academia, her friends told her, a woman could not flirt and still be a serious researcher.

As you said yourself, not more than a hundred times, a walk with you through the rose-arboured groves of academe was an experience to remain with one always.

Shell's and Daugerd's reputations, and then those of their employers, and then those of Big Academe and Big Capital, would be at stakeand highly discussible if the engineering scenario were questioned.

I'm not educated in the way George is, I don't float around in cloud-cuckoo-land or wander among the groves of academe.

The habit of eating everything she could get at formal gatherings of this sort, common in Academe, was so deeply ingrained in her that it could be described as a conditioned response.

The digital divides that opened up with the early adoption of the Net by academe and business - are narrowing.

Kolya had gone from academe to labour camp, and Obidin zigzagged from drunk tank to church.

Glenna thought it would be useful for her to have a profession, and she told me Norma would probably end up in the world of academe, taking students on geology field trips.

But a lot more often, I've found that professors who see a chance to influence events outside academe will leap at it in spite of their alleged lack of interest Truth to tell, I don't know if a savant of Roman epigraphy ever got that kind of chance (at least since the days when the Empire was a going concern), but my guess is that he'd grab it, too.

Sometimes they even mean it But a lot more often, I've found that professors who see a chance to influence events outside academe will leap at it in spite of their alleged lack of interest Truth to tell, I don't know if a savant of Roman epigraphy ever got that kind of chance (at least since the days when the Empire was a going concern), but my guess is that he'd grab it, too.

She'd come down from Oxford with all the expected brilliant results in philosophy, politics and economics - or 'Modern Greats' in the jargon of academe - and done all those things that her contemporaries thought smart: she studied Russian at the Sorbonne while perfecting the French accent necessary for upper-class young Englishwomen.

Fiction is a better world for me than the snake pits of Academe could ever be.