rigor

College courses must actively cultivate the virtues of curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual humility, analytical rigor and, above all, dedication to the pursuit of truth.

Under what he called the “nighthawk project,” engineers pursued research around the clock, matching the rigor of production-line operations.

So a new analysis by its joint faculty-administration committee of its student preparation may reflect a broader decline in academic rigor and standards.

Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed.

One might also point to American consumers, who haven’t moderated their beef buying enough to subject the commodity to the rigors of supply-and-demand economics.