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Usage examples "academic":

1. Acting on his uncle's wishes he had gone abroad, and postponed for a time entering on the same academic career as his father, owing to his health having suffered severely from the strain of the examination, which he had passed with honours. - "The Song of Songs", Hermann Sudermann.
2. It gives, in the first place, a notion of the quaint simplicity which then characterised the academic procedure of the oldest of American universities; and it also brings us into rather intimate touch with Prescott himself as a youth of fifteen. - "William Hickling Prescott", Harry Thurston Peck.
3. Here was the place where academic information would be useful- and the chance for an " in." - "The Fourth R", George Oliver Smith.