Word: rigorous
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...austerity measures. In addition to hefty cutbacks in government spending, they included a $285 limit on the amount of currency Frenchmen will be allowed to take abroad and a 1% income tax surcharge to help cover the $1.9 billion social security deficit. To many experts, the emphasis on "rigor" was strangely reminiscent of the policies of former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his Premier, Raymond Barre, an approach that Mitterrand had harshly criticized during the 1981 presidential campaign...
...Such rigor exerts surprising appeal. The university annually receives some 1,000 applications for its 280-member freshman class. Alumni have proved the excellence of Sewanee's education: the school has produced 20 Rhodes scholars, and the percentage of alumni listed in Who's Who is among the highest for American colleges. Readers, writers and publishers who have never heard of the University of the South know of the Sewanee Review, the oldest literary quarterly in the country. In the '30s and '40s it published the works of such writers as Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren...
...Fresh" is the ideal now. It stands, figuratively, for stylish, but it literally means clean, new, right. Sneakers without a smudge; jeans unblemished. But there is humor as well as rigor in rap flash. If you think high, knitted ski caps worn at impossible angles are just funny-looking, you only get half the joke. Printed legends like I'D RATHER BE SKIING refer not to snowy slopes but to white mounds of a certain illicit inhalable substance. Greek fisherman hats, or bike-team hats, even shirts with alligator trademarks are worn with what Rap Scene Writer Michael Holman...
Intellectual rigor and cogency are all that a plan of study logically requires; if the program also happens to be original, the student may also need some extra perseverance to convince others of its legitamacy. Yet the Special Concentrations Committees leaps from this point to place barriers before students which are nearly impossible to overcome; even manageable programs generally prove extremely stressful. For many students, the prospect of continuous uncertainly about their academic future is too high a price for pursuing an unestablished field that fascinates them. Even the amount of time it takes to coordinate a Special Concentration...
...other problem the revision seeks to address in the accessibility and applicability of math courses to the intermediate level. Also Math "55, Advanced Calculus," would become Math 25. "Honors Intermediate Calculus and Linear Algebra," Which would have "the rigor without the abstraction, matching the preparation of students much better, explained Mumford...