Word: rigorousity
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The new boss of the U.S. Office of Education had 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...
"Tech Is Hell." Despite the fact that such imaginative teaching methods can often make fun out of the stiffest course, study at M.I.T. remains rigorous enough to satisfy the most demanding standards. M.I.T.'s freshmen are students who have ranked among the top 1½% on college board math...
Similarly, in its efforts to expose its students to the full life, M.I.T. encourages sports (although it has no football team) and other extracurricular activities. Since academic disciplines are so rigorous, M.I.T. deliberately avoids setting down rules for personal conduct. The students themselves police excessive noise, late parties and other...
The director of the peace corps outlined a rigorous recruitment, selection, and training program that would precede the sending of Americans abroad. He emphasized the importance of instruction in the culture, customs, and language of the country concerned, and said that both foreign students living in the United States and...
Although the proliferation of new techniques in the 20th Century would seem to give composers a wide choice of possible styles, in reality it has had the opposite effect. For rigorous systems often restrict a composer under the guise of giving him order. Both neo-classicists and the most advanced...