To us, school had been a place in which we learned lessons from booksbooks of arithmetic, books of grammar, or other purely academic books.

The fact that this or that writer speaks of a conception of human nature in which he is ceasing to believe as 'abstract' or 'ideal' may seem to be of merely academic interest.

Except in exclusively academic circles, the man is gauged by his power of financial purchase and control, and the dollar is his hall mark.

(The lists are practical, not meticulously academic.

The schools are no longer solely, or even predominantly, academic.

I should venture to say that West Point is the harder grind; that the graduate of the Point has a more specifically academic military training than the graduate of Sandhurst.