Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...completion of Sever Hall in the hope that we should suffer no longer from a lack of ventilation in the recitation rooms, and we still believe that this end might be attained if the new rooms were assigned to meet present needs and not to comply with some rigid system which satisfies no one except the complacent inventor. If preference is given to any department, it ought to be that one for which Sever is best adapted. But this has not been done. It seems that room has been found in Sever for every other department except that of History...
Behind the quarter of a mile of these interesting sights came the pet of the whole show, - the baby elephant. It was named "Prayers," and was regarded as the spoilt child of the University. Fear-of-Public-Opinion bolstered its tottering steps on one side; rigid penalties - including suspension - performed this graceful office on the other. A choir - of one feeble-voiced, hired youth - walked in front, enticing it on by singing melancholy hymns. Altogether, it was a forlorn-looking creature...
...benefit to students, the number of those who show any tendency to know more of their pupils than can be learnt in two or three hours a week is limited to four or five. The barrier between these two great classes is one of no imaginary kind; it is rigid, and almost impassable...