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Obviously Watson cannot maintain the suspense very much longer. He must decide soon whether to apply the rule with hair-splitting rigor, whether to drop it altogether, or whether to take on the formal duties of adviser himself. Because the idea of sponsors seems here to stay, and because rigorous application would distort the rule's purpose, the Deans' Office should fill in as advisers until it can find faculty members or alumni willing to undertake...
Neil J. Smelser '52, Rhodes Scholar-elect, called for more reading in the G.E. courses and more rigor in the lectures. A student, he said, "often comes out of a lecture only aware that a given historical event was caused by a number of things...
...that Mrs. Butler was dead. He could find no pulse, his stethoscope revealed no heartbeat. A mirror held before her mouth and nostrils showed no breathing. The eyes seemed lifeless, and Mrs. Butler's body was cold. Though the doctor estimated that she had been dead for hours, rigor mortis had not set in. The bath water, it was thought, might explain that...
...Lillenthal and Senator Taft, has the biggest name in the business. Famed for the development of the case method under Langdell, the first dean, and once Infamous for its now abandoned policy of flunking one-third of each first-year class, the school has stuck to its principles of rigor and tough mental discipline in the study...
There was a time and a climate when it could have been different. Right after World War II, before the arteries hardened, before rigor mortis began to set in, when the Liberalism of the '30's contended with the Reaction of the late '40's. It was a good fight for three years--before Suburbia won the rubber match, and World War III became the trophy. From The Dartmouth, January...