groves of Academe

the groves of academe

Institutions of higher learning, such as colleges and universities, or higher learning in general. I've spent my whole career in the groves of academe, so transitioning to the corporate sector will be difficult.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

groves of Academe

the academic community. literary
This phrase alludes to the Roman poet Horace's Epistles, in which he says: Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum ‘and seek for truth in the groves of Academe’. The Academia was a grove near ancient Athens where a number of philosophers, Plato among them, taught their pupils.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

groves of academe

An institution of higher education (college or university), or those associated with it. This term refers to an actual place in ancient Greece, the Grove of Academus, an olive grove outside Athens presented by the Spartans to the Athenian hero Achilles, who had helped to rescue Helen. About 387 b.c. Plato had a house and garden adjoining this place, where he would meet with his students, and his school of philosophy came to be called, after it, Academia. Years later, the Roman poet Horace referred to it (Epistles, 20 b.c.): “To seek for truth in the groves of Academe”; and John Milton also referred to it in Paradise Regained (1671). Today the term is often used ironically, as by Mary McCarthy, who made it the title of her satirical novel The Groves of Academe (1953).
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
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References in periodicals archive
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But Malm is interested in how these claims illustrate visions of reality and power relations that are hardly unique to the withered groves of academe. It matters for climate activism whether global warming is something set in motion by capital or in part by carbon dioxide as an agent in its own right.
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Graduate programs must disabuse students from such fictions, discourage them from overspecialization, and instead train students for a wider range of employment opportunities in academia and beyond: teaching at community colleges, working for non-profits, or finding employment beyond the groves of academe in the private sector.
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Mapping Irish Theatre: Theories of Space and Place is a rare beast in the groves of academe: a readable, intelligent and thought provoking book that is accessible to both students and teachers.
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But fortunately, in most cases the real world moves on despite the efforts of those of us in the groves of academe to pretend it doesn't exist.
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It might also encourage those clients to remember your name when they graduate and mosey out of the groves of academe and into the hurly-burly of the world of finance or commerce or government or whatever.
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Although musical comedy became her first love, she enjoyed her three years in the groves of academe and wanted more.
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Perhaps reflecting his responsibility towards the world outside the groves of Academe, Wilfred Mellers, Staff Tutor at the University's Extramural Department, assembled a group of enthusiasts (including the pathologist, clinician and poet, Dr Edward Lowbury) with the aim of forming a society to bring music away from the province of the "gown", right into "town", performed by artists of the highest international calibre.
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This, for a while, united the sons of toil with the soft-palmed Marxists, who were already plucking fruit along the groves of academe.
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In the telling of how, against all odds, a "pestiferous wrack" of papers, as one Cambridge professor put it, became one of the most important finds of the late 19th- and early 20th century, Sacred Trash transforms life within the dusty, dry, and often desiccated groves of academe into something akin to a giant romp, a thrilling adventure yarnhijinks among the highbrow.
Pieced Together
As the Climategate scandals have shown, Lysenkoism may have been officially repudiated in the Soviet Union, but it still thrives in the hallowed groves of academe.
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Born in 1966 in Alabama he had a fairly rudimentary schooling, never clung to the groves of academe with any great tenacity nor climbed the tendrils of the Ivy League.
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As it had done in the early years of the twentieth century, the English Association responded to the stipulations of the Butler Education Provision and other curricular and institutional developments by continuing to hone its professional standards and establish greater opportunities for English students beyond the sacred groves of academe. As always, the English Association embraced its singularly important role of acting, in the words of its 1955 president, W.
William Baker, Elaine Treharne, and Helen Lucas. The English Association: One Hundred Years On
Second, a Professor Johnston has written from the Groves of Academe complaining about the absence of academic geography in the magazine (Editor's letter).
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