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...problems in our state-educational quality in the several state universities. Quality is subtle, but there is nothing subtle about the continuing loss of outstanding teachers and researchers from one's alma mater for better opportunities elsewhere. The "pursuit of excellence" is becoming a rout! The demand for "rigor" in education is fast yielding to rigor mortis instead...
...since they are the products of the act of reproduction). Some of them carried their asceticism as far as the endura-suicide by self-starvation. Most of the Cathari, however, remained among the "believers," free to live ordinary lives in the world in the hope of salvation without the rigor of living as a "perfect...
...barely been sworn in last week when he ventured an opinion about U.S. schools. "Soft," "flabby," "lax," "easy," exclaimed Commissioner Sterling M. McMurrin, 47. "We have much less knowledge, much less creativity, much less moral fiber than we would have had if our educational process had been more rigorous." McMurrin set his goal as "quality and rigor in teaching"-strong talk for the Office of Education, which for most of its 94 years has been a tame source of statistics rather than of standards...
...only on professional educators but also on the country's best brains-including that most caustic critic of U.S. schools, Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Said dispassionate Philosopher McMurrin: "I think Admiral Rickover's impact on American education has been essentially good. His demand for greater rigor and the pursuit of excellence has had an excellent effect...
...returned from a junket to Austria, they remained silent about the attack. Then they announced that they had shot the plane down over Soviet waters near the Kola Peninsula. Olmstead and McKone, the only survivors, were in prison. They would, cried Nikita, be tried as spies, "under the full rigor of Soviet law." Such vehemence seemed only natural after the loud propaganda that followed the capture of U-2 Pilot Powers and Khrushchev's intransigence in Paris...