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...department at the University of Nevada, has never done anything more unorthodox than ride to class on a motorcycle. But Richardson happens to believe in high academic standards and intellectual discipline. It was that belief that got him into hot water with Nevada's new President Minard W. Stout...
...former professor of education who was principal of the laboratory high school at the University of Minnesota, President Stout does not put too much store by conventional academic standards. He thinks that an emphasis on such "discipline" subjects as mathematics, languages and history is little more than "intellectual snobbery." Last fall, acting under this credo, Stout announced that Nevada would henceforth have no entrance standards at all, would take in any Nevada high-school graduate no matter what his ability or preparation. With that, the Stout v. Richardson battle...
...Mind Your Own Business." As head of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Biologist Richardson felt he had a duty to protest. After one Stout speech, he made some pointed criticisms, during the question period, of the new policy. He was also critical when Stout abolished the faculty's Academic Council. Later, he committed what to Stout seemed the most serious offense of all: he began distributing about the campus reprints of an article by Historian Arthur Bestor Jr. (TIME, Jan. 5) of the University of Illinois. The article was called "Aimlessness in Education...
...first time, it was because the roof leaked. This time, Don Angel said, it was because the chapel could not be securely shut. But the sisters and their neighbors were working hard last week to put up strong doors and a stout lock, and Sister Marie Aline bubbled with optimism. "We will end up by having such a nice little chapel that Father Angel will be happy to come and say Mass in it," she said. "We can do good work here...
...which made some of his colleagues blink: 1) because overheating of the testicles reduces sperm production, tight-fitting underwear is bad-a kilt is just the thing; 2) a man whose sperm output is below par should eat onions, garlic, bananas, celery, parsley, honey, cheese and molasses, and drink stout; 3) before trying to bring about conception, such a husband should remain continent for ten days to six weeks...