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> [I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-eugenides/i-mean-when-i-got-to-brown-the-place-was-riven-because-you-had-older/)

[Jeffrey Eugenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-eugenides/)

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> [“The institutionalization of the radical ethos in the academy has brought with it not only an increasing politicization of the humanities, but also an increasing ignorance of the humanistic legacy. Instead of reading the great works of the past, students…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kimball/the-institutionalization-of-the-radical-ethos-in-the-academy-has/)

[Roger Kimball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kimball/)

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