Word: rigorousness
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...core would be "a simple relabeling of what we are already doing badly--namely, generating non-departmental courses lacking the rigor of departmental offerings," said Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59 at the time...
...said if the calendar were reformed according to the proposal, Professors might feel constrained in giving longer or more difficult assignments--and Harvard's academic rigor might be compromised...
...Rigor is certainly what Clinton can expect. Stephens, 47, is a lifelong Republican with impressive academic and prosecutorial credentials. After a boyhood on an Iowa farm, he studied at Harvard College and Law School and at Oxford. He spent a brief time in private practice, became an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal under Leon Jaworski and rose steadily through top-level posts at the Justice Department and White House. During one tour, he was Ronald Reagan's deputy White House counsel, the job the late Vincent Foster held under Clinton at the time of his death last July...
...elementary and secondary school run by Shelby Muhammad, a former Chicago public-school teacher who converted in the early '80s. Along with religious training, the school emphasizes math, science -- and discipline. Children are searched on arrival, not only for weapons but for candy and gum as well. This rigor is so popular, Muhammad says, that she has had to stop accepting applications from non-Muslim parents...
...Paglia is such a fan of scholarly rigor, why, in this piece, doesn't she practice what she fulminates...