Word: rigorousity
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Such were the beginnings of the University of Wisconsin, 100 years ago. Last week Wisconsin's Historian Merle Curti concluded that today's students would have found little, to their liking "in the plain living, the simple amusements, the rigid and rigorous disciplines" that their school started with...
The contest was arranged with the rigorous etiquette of a duel. The two contestants first chose their seconds: a local Catholic layman and a Communist poet. When Father Lombardi refused a public out-of-door contest ("I have no fear, but
Freeman was 29 with a Ph.D. in history when New York Publisher Charles Scribner asked him to do a one-volume biography of General Lee. Freeman delivered it to Scribner's son 19 years later (January 1934*) in four volumes. At that, he got it done only by putting...
This season promises to be rigorous and exciting. Rigorous enough to draw heavily on the infinite faith of the many, and exciting enough to hold the undistracted attention of all but a handful, down to that last great afternoon against Yale. Today, the team from Morningside Heights will make the...
Belgium, which fought her inflation with rigorous, classic financial methods, has made a rapid recovery, and it was quite a pleasure to see the familiar Esso trademark on the bright-red new gasoline stations going up on the main roads.