Word: rigidness
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Even if one's section is too large, one has recourse to office hours and appointments. TFs unfailingly accommodate students seeking to meet outside of class; they are, after all, only TFs. Professors, however, have schedules that are more rigid. Research, travel and paperwork consume their time. Still, if professors do not spend enough time with students, we are more to blame than they are. Seniors, I have learned, have many reasons to spend time with professors. They typically have taken small seminars with some professors. They spend the spring of their junior year looking for a thesis adviser. They...
...aware going into it that the [academic] program is pretty rigid," Potere says. "But I still had the breathing space to do what I wanted...
...died. The funeral takes on the quality of a demonstration. One such occasion was the funeral of Cardinal Manning--an unlikely public hero, you would think, if you read about him today: the old Harrovian Archdeacon of Chichester who converted to Rome and became a man who in his rigid religious orthodoxy was almost more Catholic than the Pope...
...community--not soldiers in a war against crime and drugs. Cities in free nations will never reflect the orderliness of Berlin under the Nazis or Moscow under the communists. In America police methods must comply with the law and community standards. They must not arise from a rigid concept of public order formulated within the police culture...
...must be on their best behavior, the school is warning the ladies not to expect a cake walk. Banned are lipstick, jewelry and ? sorry guys ? dating upperclassmen. The women must also live in the same barren dorm rooms and sport the same stuffy drill uniforms as men. Despite the rigid conditions, VMI wasn't beyond a little generosity. As the women arrived on campus today, each received a stylish buzz cut on the house...