Word: rigorousity
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Even if the Midwest is granted a certain amount of insularity, this ignorance reflects more than disinterest in current affairs; it indicates the Zeitgeist of a nation which--formerly complacent about its technological superiority--has failed to insist upon rigorous education, especially in science.
The question is, then, whether a free society can afford to let those who want to glide through school and thus waste needed talent. Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, states the case for those who wish to require a more rigorous curriculum. "In the best of all possible...
And third, the criteria for clearance on the whole are over-rigorous, artificial, and inflexible. Through petty technicality, we have wasted the talents of some of the possible top contributors, Oppenheimer being a prominent, though controversial example. It is difficult and expensive to clear a national of even the most...
The group is the versatile varsity ski team under the new and rigorous management of Coach Ted Lockwood and Assistant Coach Rick Eliot, former Middlebury ski captain.
Marginal institutions do not offer--nor do most of their students wish--a rigorous four-year program. College to them is solely a means to vocational advancement. To give more students greater economic opportunity, there will have to be a pooling of faculty resources at this marginal level.