Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slang is at best a temporary relief from the rigor of correct expression, but in a college of liberal arts its continued use is pitifully futile. Profanity is neither more nor less than absence of self-control, and in a community of supposedly maturing men such immaturity is really a matter of shame...
...majority of college students are not students at all; they are guests of an institution which will, after four years, provide them with a document valuable to the continuity of a family tradition or in the furtherance of business enterprise. The nonchalance of the undergraduate is met by the rigor of the system. The majority will not think; they must memorize. We do not admire the present institutions, but we must dig far deeper than the academic superstructure if we are to find primary weaknesses or lay the foundations for a better edifice of learning...