Word: rigidness
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Early recommendations for delaying concentration choice were criticized by some science and engineering professors, who were concerned that students in their fields—where concentrations often require a fairly rigid sequence of courses—would be ill-served by a later concentration choice deadline if there was not an increase in advising for those students...
...though, about his mandatory experience. “I think that a lot of people here have something unique in them, in their lives. This is just something unique in my life.” PHOTO ALBUM Myat San, a government concentrator, will soon finish his thesis. After the rigid structure of the military, it was jolting to quickly develop the academic self-discipline required at Harvard. “Harvard is the place where you really have to keep the drive going by yourself,” he says. “You do need to have...
...work is done in small groups which meet for about an hour-and-a-half each week in a student’s room. There’s “an element of hanging out, an element of bible study and discussion,” Bryant says. No rigid rules govern how the meetings are structured, and the informal atmosphere facilitates bonding among the membership.This sense of community is essential to their mission, according to members of the HRCF governing board. Even the Friday night large group meetings strive for openness and don’t follow any rigid...
...It’s silly, I think. There should be at least one person whose job is [to study] TV.”“There’s been a leveling of cultural artifacts,” says Menand. “That kind of rigid stratification of cultural artifacts is no longer very persuasive to people.” Though it may seem obvious to point out, a work is only “great” or “highbrow” if people decide that it is. Additionally, Assistant Professor of English Jason Stevens...
...there comes for another president an era of radically altered conditions, sharp change, and formidable obstacles.” These words could serve as a first draft for outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers’ final address. Much like Summers, Pusey was criticized for his rigid leadership style. The president of Union College, Harold C. Martin, once called Pusey “obdurate”, but Pusey said he preferred the term “intractable.” In addition to his stodginess, Pusey was heavily criticized for his inability to control student unrest after the 1969 University...