Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doctor Bailey has engineered, or assisted in the fixture of more necessities than the Infirmary, of more signs of progress than the growth of the medical staff from one to twelve members. He has seen the advent of rigid examination for Freshmen and all athletes, and a tendency of the University to provide the means of correction. As a builder of a vigilance that will be permanent Doctor Bailey has well-earned the gratitude of Harvard...
...Harvard for the first time will doubtless find here things which make your life different from that in the universities of your native lands. You may find some of our many systems of instruction strange. You may think that some of the requirements of courses and credits are too rigid. You may feel that our community puts too much emphasis on the sports which we call athletics. But I hope none of these things will discourage you, and I think you will not find a lack of facilities for scholarship. Magnificent libraries and laboratories are open to you, and scholars...
...months orgy of bachelordom of all the Copley males except Mr. Clive is interrupted by Miss Dixon, who uses the assets acknowledged above to gain herself five slaves and one husband. The gaining thereof is a lesson in a technique older and more rigid than that on the stage...
Coming from stock, known in Thuring-Tan musical circles during 150, years before his birth, J. S. Bach was the first great evolutionary composer of the family. Serious, systematic, rigid in form, and strictly classical in his compositions, with a profound religious faith. Bach was the greatest master who ever wrote polyphonic music. Although his age was a somewhat mechanical one, we find in Bach a great master of deep expression, often touching the romantic...
...last day; said: "We have dealt here with physical facts in debate and conclusion. There are problems in international relations which of necessity arouse natural emotions, and in such fields of imponderables they become doubly difficult of solution. There are many such possibilities in this conference, but through rigid adherence to the scientific approach and a fine spirit of co-operation they have been avoided. I wish again to emphasize the fact that 80 governments have been able to come to unanimous conclusions upon a most difficult question. It sets another milestone in the progress of international relations...