Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dogmatism & Rigor. St. Benedict's was almost as hard to get out of as to get into, according to testimony recently presented before the State Supreme Court. The evidence, the first public account of life at the center since the Slaves moved to Still River, came from Boston College Law Student Robert Colopy, 38, filing suit for custody of his five children, who are still with their mother at St. Benedict...
Webb makes no apologies for its narrow specialization or rigor. Undergraduates seem to thrive on the combination. A spartan student government has banned beards, liquor on campus, and visits by girls to dorms. Student courts can penalize a student for coming late to class or expel him for cheating on the honor system. "Most of us realize what a tremendous gift this is," says Senior Karl L. Kirkman of Catonsville, Md. "We would hate to have it spoiled for the next...
...rigor of his instruction, and for all the surface gruffness of his manner, no student who dared to approach the scholar with a question was ever turned away without an answer...
...main difference between the Mathematics and Applied Mathemathics programs," Birkhoff said, "is that students learn to prove theorems in math, but will learn to use them in Applied Math, will all due respect to rigor...
...vocal and emotional hell that he and their mother can still give each other. Old rage rather than old age is their subject. Alan Webb, as an ancient butler, potters and poeticizes near life's exit with a funny and touching gallantry and even cheats incipient rigor mortis a couple of times...