Word: rigor
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...laughs, saying he quickly realized he wasn’t cut out for the work. Slamming his topology textbooks shut forever, Wolff went off to study music composition under Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus Leon Kirchner ’61. “It was the rigor of the musical training that attracted me [to composition],” Wolff says in a phone interview, citing Kirchner’s seminars as a highlight of his undergraduate career. But Wolff found the student-led recitals even more stimulating, and decided his true passion lay in performance. Wolff trekked to Paris...
...Harvard undergraduates indicate stress as an impediment to performance, both academic and otherwise. From the varsity men and women’s squash team to the varsity men and women’s crew team, athletes on campus are finding that yoga offers a needed break from the rigor of day-to-day campus life. Among the first to include yoga as part of their program, the Harvard men and women’s squash teams require weekly hour-long yoga sessions on Monday and Wednesday mornings. Led by Head Coach Satinder Bajwa and Assistant Coach Mohammed Ayaz...
...term that would be vapid even if it delivered on its promised goods. Is it not baneful that you, Core, are telling lies, that your “approaches to knowledge” exist in name only, that your pedagogy is a ruse which keeps asunder the rigor of departmental courses and the silliness of your look-alikes...
...choice between the rigor of a survey course on Western history or political philosophy and the promise of an easy “A” offered by the many peripheral courses is exactly why I loathe you, Core Curriculum. By not saying “you must take this,” you have caused us all to abandon those courses which look too hard, too legitimate. How many of your wards graduate without reading Aristotle or Shakespeare or Locke, but having learned of Mongolian architecture and samurai...
Hanks isn't the first to discover that there's a difference between rapture and rigor. The late Jack Swigert, command-module pilot of Apollo 13, said that the very thing that qualified astronauts to fly to the moon--a certain engineer's detachment from the outrageousness of the undertaking--disqualified them to speak about it terribly lyrically. Hanks, with lyricism to burn, decided to make the most of his astronomical talents...