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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Hemel’s intellectual rigor has not let up since coming to Harvard, according to Professor of Government Michael J. Hiscox...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson’s Editor Is Marshall Scholar | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...evenly between men and women. The Registrar’s Office culls the names of students with the highest GPA in each of three fields—humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Alpha Iota then picks exactly half of those students, based on two faculty recommendations and the rigor of their courses, and with an eye toward academic diversity. “If 25 percent of the class are natural science concentrators, then 25 percent of the 48 students will be from natural science fields,” said James F. Coakley ’68, the secretary...

Author: By Vanessa J. Dube, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Inducts 48 Students | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...thorough general education requirement on the scientific approach to society would require two courses. First, students should take a course that teaches the crafting of rigorous hypotheses. This could be a class on evolutionary theory and human nature, psychology, political theory, or even economics. The key requirement should be a focus on rigorous theory about mankind. I tend to think rigor improves with mathematics, but I am perfectly willing to accept that there are verbal substitutes...

Author: By Edward L. Glaeser | Title: Methodology Matters | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...statistics: the developing adolescent brain and parents who think accidents happen only to other people's kids. Having trained one of my teenagers to drive, I concur with your story's conclusion that adding new laws and restrictions on teenagers is a good beginning, but parents must add more rigor and oversight as their children are taught to drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 13, 2006 | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...currently on the table centers instead on connecting our books with the tools our generation will need to face its challenges. Both these ideas are justifiably in fervent opposition to vocational training. But I have one qualm: The committee on General Education tends to veer towards anarchy instead of rigor. Yet rigor is precisely what we need. Although freedom is always a popular idea, it is not the best suited in our case. And however brilliant, our latest proposal—the Task Force’s Preliminary Report—might not be either. Both of them?...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Hard and Right | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

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