Word: rigor
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...churlish reply deserves high marks, if he wants them, for its chilliness and scorn. However, these are not qualities that I, at least, greatly admire in a public official so fatefully close to the President of the U.S. They are signs not of intellectual incisiveness or of moral rigor but only of bureaucratic self-righteousness and too-prolonged insulation from the ever-growing anxieties that Mr. Bundy's ex-colleagues in universities everywhere feel toward the foreign policies that he has helped to shape in recent years. His mind is more rapid than accurate, more facile than profound...
These students would know intuitively what the Doty Committee seems unwilling to acknowledge: A behavioral science is not the same--in style of thought or rigor--as a natural science. It is simply inconsistent to call for a stiffer science requirement and then propose a requirement in the behavioral sciences. Of course many of the behavioral sciences are interesting and important, but so are music and philosophy, and no one is asking that every student should take them. To justify its proposals, the Doty Committee would have had to explain the special importance of the behavioral sciences. This, we believe...
...importance. "The key thing is to establish the limits of propositions and approaches--the boundaries beyond which the hypotheses no longer hold water." By teaching an upper-level General Education course, rather than one on strict economic history, Gerschenkron can proceed by "free association." "I feel liberated from the rigor of discipline. If I find something that interest the students and myself, we can follow...
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...