Word: rigor
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...intellectual rigor and impatience with time wasters gave Luce the reputation, among those who did not know him, of having no sense of humor and ice water in his veins. But neither was the case. Witness the day that he was sitting in the office of a bureau chief when the door burst open and a member of the staff came whooping in, bottle in hand, tripped on the sill and fell full-length in front of the Editor in Chief. The bureau chief explained to his startled boss that the young man was celebrating the birth...
...rigor and devotion of Schapiro's scholarly work display the influence of the Talmudic tradition which he inherited from his father, who taught at a Jewish seminary in Russia. Three qualities characterize Schapiro's approach to the history of art: sensitive and sympathetic seeing, detailed and accurate description, and an effort to make aesthetic intuition accessible through a philosophically rigorous theory...
...topics of special interest to the "core" course material, these reforms are valuable. But there is a danger that special topics will replace, rather than supplement this core, and that some of the split courses will acquire a heavily pre-med or pre-bio accent and lose their rigor...
...universities this fall, in loco parentis is suffering from rigor mortis...
Another question under investigation, he said, in the rigor and fairness of grading at Harvard: what causes the difference between a tough course and an easy...