Word: rigorousity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basic training remains rigorous. "For the first four months I thought I had died and gone to hell," says a Scandinavian recruit. "The legion was intent on breaking me down until I could neither think nor move until somebody ordered me to." Officers think nothing of ordering a legionnaire to...
The result is a cheerful, creative, motley-looking student body. Beating Exeter in football and hockey is no longer the student body's chief interest; Andover, like other schools, has seen an explosion of interest in art, music, drama and dance. Boy-girl friendships are easygoing, though formal dating...
Whether or not they make it into Harvard, as 42 did this year, Andover's 376 seniors will be well prepared for college. In classes averaging fewer than twelve students, the school's first-rate faculty drills home such basics as English competence, a writing course required of...
Petric's "lack of manners" is legendary. Often he will interrupt section leaders in his own course, and berate them for missing small details. To some, this quality of aggressive bluntness makes Petric exasperating; others find it endearing. As section leader Robert Tranchin explains it, Petric applies the same rigorous...
T. Bryan Mauldin, an administrative assistant in the office for teaching resources who has had publishing experience and has aided the editorial board of "Byways," said yesterday "the students have worked very hard on it, especially considering their rigorous academic schedules. It is a publication of astonishingly high quality."