Word: rigorousness
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...applications each year to fill just 1,675 undergraduate slots, with decisions between qualified candidates coming down to minute differences, the information marks one way for officers to measure their success in choosing a class. The feedback also provides admissions with a means to assess the rigor of high school curricula...
Trust the faculty on this one: Summers is not an intellectual. He is a reactionary who tried to promote his personal political agenda under the guise of intellectual rigor. He believes in rigor only in the sense of rigor mortis—the intellectual paralysis that makes an economist incapable of acknowledging that African-American history or contemporary French theater might be legitimate scholarly pursuits. Respect for careful quantitative treatment of scientific questions is one thing, but the application of economics to the philosophical question of where a university is headed deserves the scorn with which the Faculty of Arts...
...plenty of rigor in my classes at Harvard, but the lack of rigor cited in Lecturer Tal Ben-Shahar’s classes mask the fact that what he is imparting—quite successfully—could be the most important takeaway in students’ years on-campus. If they can walk away understanding that gratitude is the character strength most closely associated with happiness, or that having a meaningful social circle is one of the best predictors of aging well, they will not only change their lives, but they will “pay it forward?...
...teaches the spring semester course in the year-long introductory Life Sciences sequence, wrote in an e-mail, “From what my students know, and don’t know, I can only infer that most AP biology courses do not have the depth or rigor to justify testing out of a college course.” The study’s authors, Sadler and University of Virginia Assistant Professor of Science Education Robert H. Tai, presented their findings on Feb. 17 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis...
...regarding timing of concentration choice. Summers, who in his recent resignation letter expressed a desire to make the Harvard experience commensurate with the quality of its students and faculty, seems to share this understanding. It is in both students’ and professors’ interests to maintain the rigor of Harvard’s degree programs, and I trust that the current efforts toward increased freedom and flexibility will contribute to that goal. Emily E. Riehl ’06 is a mathematics concentrator in Adams House...