Word: rigor
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...carried two major purposes: to educate students in a broad range of areas and to promote a new and analytical way of thinking. First of all, the Core should have had one other goal: to make sure that its broad-based education truly represented the quality and rigor of all courses at the college...
...peer review of Mack's work. Mack is quite proud of his Harvard affiliation. Harvard Medical School is, in all likelihood, a bit less enthusiastic. Presumably because Mack was besmirching the good name of Harvard (on the talk-show circuit, among other places) and because Mack's scholarly rigor was questionable, the peer review was put in place...
...Valentine's Day, the mercifully brief window of opportunity when the world tolerates the most nauseating displays of cuteness and couples know no shame, has always found me either single or in the rigor mortis phase of a relationship. As a result, I start to cringe the moment those saccharine pink hearts pop up in CVS windows, which, unless I'm imagining things, gets earlier every year...
...Tangents shows people the beauty of math without the usual rigor, and it is a journal for everyone to pick up," he said in an interview yesterday...
Former Crimson editor Michael E. Kinsley '72 brought the better-than thou tradition to the New Yorker. In a Comment on "The Intellectual Free Lunch," (Feb. 6, 1995) Kinsley wrote: "It is contemptuous, not respectful, to excuse 'the people' from all demands of intellectual rigor or honesty on the ground that their judgments are wise by definition...