Word: rigor
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...have mentioned altogether absent from us? It was a bold step, this elective system; and bolder, voluntary recitations. It means that, in power of judgment, men of twenty stand on a level with their instructors. Parental authority is relinquished, and in place of the imposed self-discipline which the rigor of Puritan teachers imposed on the taught, what have we? There is only one substitute possible, - the personal influence of individual character, - and this is wanting. Do not answer by citing this instructor or that, - I rejoice equally with you in the discovery. But take each class, take each department...
...games. We offer the Cornell men our most sincere sympathy; and as we notice a complaint in the same article of the inefficiency of the Ithaca police-force, we cannot forbear to suggest that in Cambridge officials might be found against whom the charge of lack of rigor could never be preferred...
...informed that the scale of marks has been so low that nearly one hundred members of the class are in imminent danger of conditions. We are bound to express our surprise that the number is so small, and to utter a remonstrance against an excess of rigor which can only be explained by the supposition of inexperience on the part of the instructor...
...manner contrary to nature. Up to the age of fourteen or fifteen, a child cannot do without the care and affection of home. Here, on the contrary, he is deprived of all affection. The tender care which his age demands fails him altogether. He is treated with rigor, even intimidation. He is addressed like a slave or a culprit. He is surrounded by repressive influences. The scholars are too numerous to be governed without a severe and inflexible discipline, too numerous to be governed by the methods of kindness and persuasion. There thus springs up between master and scholars...