Word: rigorousity
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Obviously, Harvard's rigorous admission standards, lack of a persuasive recruiting program, absence of a physical education or similar "quasi-academic" major, and refusal to indulge in many other athletic ego-stroking actions, limits the University's appeal. Many of the nation's blue-chip prospects, who have athletic tunnel...
If Harvard is to serve its students, it will have to take an assertive role in the years to come: either shrug off the academic ideals and turn to athletic mass production; or step in, stop the win-at-all-cost attitude now taking hold, and restructure the athletics program...
Training of S.A.S. recruits-all volunteers from other British army regiments-is exceedingly rigorous. The initial four-week selection course has a 90% failure rate. For starters, recruits are sent crawling through noxious sheep-dips and marching over mountainous terrain in Wales carrying 55-lb. backpacks on a 37%-mile...
In college English departments, the shift from an all-out study of literature to a more rigorous blend of literature and composition can be a shock to the faculty. At the University of Texas' Austin campus, half the students in the 1960s were excused from fulfilling the freshman English...
DIED. Levi Jitzhak Grunwald, 86, the Tzehlemer Rebbe, leader of a minor sect of Hasidim in Brooklyn, who touched the lives of all observant American Jews by requiring enforcement of the most rigorous standards for the preparation of kosher food; in New York City. Born in what is now the...