Word: rigorousity
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The Board of Education lowered the test standards so that more students could pass. Then, at the delayed prompting of Gov. A. Paul Cellucci (fully aware of possible election-year fallout should he not take action), it reconvened to restore the scoring system to its original, more rigorous level. The...
When Harvard Coach Tim Murphy arrived four years ago, Harvard had only known Joe Restic football for the 23 previous years. But Murphy turned the program around with rigorous offseason workouts and vigorous recruitment.
"There should be such a rigorous line betweenthese two activities that one could never evenconsider that one came close to approaching thatline," Sachs said. "That certainly is theappropriate standard."
Spring break gave both teams a chance to regroup and re-energize before the beginning of the outdoor season. Completing a rigorous two-a-day practice schedule in the balmy Houston heat, each team looked with optimism toward a successful spring.
"They were intellectually rigorous, tough on each other, but still friends," Dionne recalls of the class that shaped his journalistic ideals.