Word: rigorousness
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...very least, I gravitated to activities that seemed to build my persona outside the stereotype. In this way, I spent nearly four years paralyzed by the stereotype. Partially out of fears of falling into the athlete trap, I signed on to a concentration that, due to the rigor of its tutorial program, was almost devoid of athletes. Even writing for The Crimson seemed the “unathletic” thing to do. If I had to do it over again, I might attempt to be more active in fighting the stereotype instead of running from...
Even those who are leaving say they will miss the University’s intellectual atmosphere and rigor...
...bruises all along her arms and legs. "I've got another one!" Reichert shouted to the other cops by the river. When the medical examiner arrived, he estimated that Chapman had been in the river about a week, Hinds several days. The body of Mills barely had traces of rigor mortis, suggesting she had been dead only a day or so; rigor mortis generally starts to wear off after 24 hours...
...paycheck? Should Harvard students graduate with mediocre GPAs when they could easily earn near perfect marks at any school in the nation? And does the need to produce students with lower grades actually have more to do with faculty and administrative fear that other schools are approaching our academic rigor than it does with measuring real student achievement...
...honors: 5 percent for percentage of concentrators who graduate with any Latin honors, 5 percent for percentage of those who graduate magna and summa and 5 percent for percentage of those who graduate summa. Our assumption is that a higher percentage of honors indicates greater academic achievement and rigor in the concentration...