Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result of the mid year examination upon Chemistry this year was, to say the least, disastrous, but cannot be attributed to the elective system. The freshman transferred from Prof. Coke's easy marking to Mr. Huntington's rigid scrutiny, were conditioned by dozens...
...should now be made to serve the purpose of the colleges of two generations ago while the scope of the universities should be so enlarged that they can serve as a field for the individual expansion of the students. With regard to the colleges which still retain the ancient rigid requirements of classics, Mr. Curtis says "no college can justly plume itself upon superior fidelity to the classics because it insists that they shall be a bed of Procrustes upon which every student shall be equally stretched." And yet he does not see any very desolate outlook for the future...
...English, coupled with a growing sense of the importance of the study, have succeeded in making the welfare of the English department one of the very greatest interest to every student. Only of recent years has the study of English assumed any prominence whatsoever. Fortunately, as the days of rigid curriculum work have become numbered, and as men have been allowed greater and greater freedom in shaping their work so as to supply the needs of to day, not of yesterday, the real and vital importance of this study has been recognized. That such a magazine as we propose...
There are only two ways in which the expenses can be met and the debt reduced, by more liberal subscriptions from the students and a more rigid economy on the part of the management. The present management, although it disagrees with us on the question of blazers, has shown a commendable desire for economy in some other directions and more careful handling of their funds than has characterized many of their predecessors. Already several avenues of leakage have been stopped, but more remain. It is also probable that an estimate of the expenses will soon be published in accordance with...
...from my chair, I could not. I could not move,-not even an eyelid. My muscles, tense with the excitement of the thrilling narrative I had just read, would not respond to my will. A stronger power than my own seemed to hold them fast, and they remained as rigid as if they had been turned to stone. I suppose I was in some sort of a trance; for while I was confined as securely by my inert body as if I were in a close cage, my mind was as active as ever...