Word: rigidities
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...Continent had managed to live in peace for as long as it had between its two world wars. True enough, it was divided between West and East, and each side's bristles of missiles were unneeded evidence that the peace was still troubled. But the rigid structures of Europe are rapidly changing, and so are the dogmas of decades past. The cold opposing currents are growing warmer and the hard opposing truths growing softer. As the 7,601st day passed into the 7,602nd, World War III did not seem in the offing. It had seldom, in fact, seemed...
...practically unchanged, except for outright losses due to failure, from year to year; they followed in fixed order, day by day, the same subjects, for the same length of time, in the same year and at the same hour . . . and, at regular intervals, all alike, in the same rigid groups, performed precisely the same practical exercises, attended the same quizzes and submitted to the same monthly, semi-annual and annual examinations. Anything more alien to the spirit of scientific or modern medicine or to University life could hardly be contrived...
...There must be a recognition of individual aptitude and individual differences. Quite different kinds of people can contribute to medicine, and it is reasonable to assume that they will learn different things at different rates. The rigid lockstep system of American medical education must be broken if individual aptitudes are to be fostered...
Fencing and skiing demonstrate an equally scarce participation from upperclassmen. It is these individual sports, which offer less rigid training schedules, that seniors avoid. In fact, football, soccer, hockey, and baseball teams all have a large jump in lettermen from the sophomore to junior year. These sports also have junior varsity teams that serve as training grounds. Yovicsin, a firm believer in experience and careful play, arranges for Harvard to have more junior varsity games than anyone else in the league. He never has more than five sophomore regulars on his teams, even with the two-platoon system...
Attention that year was also focused on the University's tenure policy, which the Student Council said was too rigid. The tutoring schools, lingering on since the scandals of the past year, finally died. Publishing companies brought suit against some of the major schools, whose published course notes infringed on textbook copyrights. And the administration made any student who used the services of a tutoring school subject to disciplinary action...