Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Boston engagement. What is more, this bad reputation will cling to you through college. Your instructors will regard you as your conduct leads them to suppose that you regard them, - as a natural enemy; and every stroke of work that you do will be criticised with the most merciless rigor. On the other hand, if in the beginning you are reasonably attentive to your books, and, above all, if you flatter the tutor's self-love by taking copious notes, and by appearing to be interested in his numerous remarks, you will soon be distinguished from the great body...
...have mentioned altogether absent from us? It was a bold step, this elective system; and bolder, voluntary recitations. It means that, in power of judgment, men of twenty stand on a level with their instructors. Parental authority is relinquished, and in place of the imposed self-discipline which the rigor of Puritan teachers imposed on the taught, what have we? There is only one substitute possible, - the personal influence of individual character, - and this is wanting. Do not answer by citing this instructor or that, - I rejoice equally with you in the discovery. But take each class, take each department...
...games. We offer the Cornell men our most sincere sympathy; and as we notice a complaint in the same article of the inefficiency of the Ithaca police-force, we cannot forbear to suggest that in Cambridge officials might be found against whom the charge of lack of rigor could never be preferred...
...informed that the scale of marks has been so low that nearly one hundred members of the class are in imminent danger of conditions. We are bound to express our surprise that the number is so small, and to utter a remonstrance against an excess of rigor which can only be explained by the supposition of inexperience on the part of the instructor...
...manner contrary to nature. Up to the age of fourteen or fifteen, a child cannot do without the care and affection of home. Here, on the contrary, he is deprived of all affection. The tender care which his age demands fails him altogether. He is treated with rigor, even intimidation. He is addressed like a slave or a culprit. He is surrounded by repressive influences. The scholars are too numerous to be governed without a severe and inflexible discipline, too numerous to be governed by the methods of kindness and persuasion. There thus springs up between master and scholars...