Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these men back to an equal footing with their classmates, with regard to work successfully accomplished. And with the improvement of scholarship in mind, the curtailing of outside activities, such as athletics or publication work is amply justified. But the imposition of extra burdens in the shape of more rigid discipline--and of higher standards, is hardly logical. Any advance toward re-during the added difficulties of the man on probation will be warmly welcomed...
...interest in the literature of Rome and Athens differs fundamentally from the enforced interest of an earlier generation. The general abomination of prescribed Latin and Greek produced in part, at least, that revolt against the rigid college course from which emerged the elective system. Under President Eliot the principle was adopted that personal interest should determine the direction of undergraduate study. And the renaissance of Latin and Greek which appears imminent must result from the free play of this principle. There is certainly as much to induce a study of Latin in Cicero's orations, as there is to induce...
...rare growth. And yet it is difficult to describe Professor Copeland to newcomers; all that can be said is that he is a Harvard institution. To be appreciated he must be seen, and above all heard, at one of his inimitable readings, of which the etiquette, moreover, is as rigid and unyielding as the concrete and mortar of the Union itself...
...Navy on the British airship R-34, which crossed the Atlantic. He was later assigned to duty at the Zeppelin plant in Germany where the ZR3 is now being constructed for the U. S. No other officer in naval aviation has had the experience he has in handling rigid airships...
...commander had remained in touch with a naval station until 15 minutes before the disaster, when he signaled that he was drawing up his wireless aerial. Presumably the ship was struck before the completion of the maneuver. With its huge metal structure, a rigid dirigible is like a giant lightning rod furnishing the easiest and most attractive path for any electrical disturbance. Unlike the lightning rod, it cannot lead the charge safely to mother earth...