Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well read this article with attention. The Editor of the Monthly, however, in his comments on the subject, is mistaken in thinking that "the citadel of election" may already have fallen. Neither President Lowell, nor the Faculty, has as yet indicated any desire to replace an "elastic" by a "rigid" curriculum...
...until they have referred every experience, and every bit of knowledge, to certain first principles; and, next, those who take life more classically, not because they lack first principles, but because they are more interested in the sweep and variety, even in the exceptions and caprice, than in the rigid formulation of life. Mr. Berenson belongs to the former class, and it is wonderful that a mind so acutely intellectual as his should choose for its special province the Fine Arts--the domain, that is, where Beauty and not Knowledge is sovereign. But although his forte is intellectual, Mr. Berenson...
...midst a congenial place of permanent abode. But the tenor of this editorial is sane and indicious; the writer is sage enough to have observed that in this world they who seek equity must do equity; more apt to be effected through the channels of compromise than through a rigid insistence by one side upon the letter of its claims. Few things are more easy than to persuade men of the absolute justice of their own cause, and to lead them to the folly of imagining that arguments unanswered are unanswerable...
...School, built up by the late Dean Shaler, is now in a state of transition, and will probably develop in time into a purely graduate school. Its graduates will have in addition to their technical equipment, the broadening influence of a college education which counteracts the restrictions of a rigid technical training. Under its present able administration and aided by the McKay bequest, the engineering department should take its place among the foremost institutions of applied engineering in the country. In this development the almuni organization should take an important part. Similar organizations have been successful...
...Sargent does not believe in the illiteracy test for immigrants because it excludes some of the very best of them and admits anarchists and men who teach doctrines which cause distress to the country. He advocates a system of most rigid examinations and restrictions to prevent criminals, anarchists, agitators and people affected with disease iron entering the country. The inspection and examination, however, should be made, not in this country, but at the ports of embarkation...