Now he knew that, when he got back to London, though there might be, academically speaking, opportunities of seeing Sally, it wasn't going to be the same thing.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
People who are interested academically in other people's happiness usually succeed in making everybody unhappy.
"The So-called Human Race"
Bert Leston Taylor
The "tufts" or students from the nobility or titled families were a privileged set, paid double fees and were not required to do much of anything academically.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes