11.   Every time a university with a reputation for academic excellence and football ineptitude suddenly begins to win games, or even a game, it makes some people nervous.

12.   He said the regents are committed to finding a president who will maintain academic excellence and foster a Christian environment at the school.

13.   He served in the army before attending Cambridge, where his academic excellence led to a research scholarship to study the influence of the classics on Victorian schools.

14.   His academic excellence took him to Harvard, where Lithgow decided to become an artist.

15.   It is an issue California has successfully confronted by creating a system that provides access and academic excellence to all, Bowen said.

16.   Like, say, Duke, coincidentally another bastion of academic excellence.

17.   Left behind in increasing numbers are children from the poorest families whose parents are less likely to demand academic excellence from their children.

18.   Monroe traveled a long, hard road to make it to the citadel of academic excellence on the banks of the Charles River.

19.   Maybe Leahy sees what the handwringers do not, that Boston College does not have to choose between competitive sports and academic excellence.

20.   Much of their basketball success is due, ironically, to academic excellence.