Word: rigor
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...Crimson’s usually-air-conditioned offices. In fact, the bus rides to Beantown have been just as promising as those to the Big Apple. Mine has been a desire to escape, to squeeze all the possibility out of my dozen weeks liberated from the structure and rigor of the academic year.The dilemma is how we realize our summer goals—and, more basically, how we define them in the first place. During the academic year, these questions are easier to answer than a Magic of Numbers problem set. The “optimal?...
...speculated that the presence of black students was the cause of grade inflation at Harvard, and in 2002 law professor Alan M. Dershowitz conditionally endorsed torture by the Israeli and U.S. governments. Those who detect laziness and complacency in the Harvard Faculty willfully ignore the rigor of the University’s hiring process. Harvard assembles a staggering array of data and specialists’ opinions before conferring tenure, making it the most sought-after and demanding appointment in the academic world. It is therefore difficult to imagine a human population more compulsive in its work ethic than Harvard professors...
...book “The Shape of the River” that Bok co-wrote with former Princeton University president William G. Bowen, Bok presents some factors that could be responsible for the supposed decline in expected academic performance.The book suggests that pre-college influences such as the rigor of a student’s educational background and his or her family and socioeconomic situation can explain the disparity in performance between races.“In general, black students are more likely than white students to come from educational backgrounds that will not adequately prepare them for the challenges...
...traces his lifelong skepticism back to his realization that theories that are not built with scientific rigor are essentially intellectual “fads...
...tell me your brilliant thought and I’ll tell you mine, then I have another class or extracurricular to go to so off I go.”However, professors say the more laid back atmosphere of the extension school is not necessarily reflective of the academic rigor of the classes.Robert H. Neugeboren, a lecturer on Social Studies who has taught Economics 1050: “Strategy, Conflict, and Cooperation” at the College and its extension school counterpart of the same name, Economics E-1040, says that there is very little difference in the structure...