While one might imagine that a 14-year-old stoner from Tucson would have a rough time making the transition to an academically rigorous all-boys' boarding school thousands of miles from home, Ellis handles the move with typical aplomb, suffering minimal homesickness and effortlessly acing his classes.
He offered her an education as rigorous as any boy's at the time and forbade her from reading the typical feminine fare of the time, such as etiquette books and sentimental novels.
The life is rigorous, but the boys seem to have taken to it.
"There's lots of hard, rigorous software that boys and girls like equally," he said.
In 1914, an anonymous benefactor founded a school offering a free rigorous education to boys who were Roman Catholic and who lived in New York City.
In addition to a rigorous music education, the boys must study language arts, math, science, social studies, Spanish and health, and participate in physical education.
Mark Sullivan, the Secret Service director, came across like a credulous Boy Scout under rigorous questioning from Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the ranking Republican on the homeland security panel.
A9 Death at a Youth Boot Camp The authorities in Phoenix were investigating the death of a 14-year-old boy in a rigorous boot-camp program for troubled youth.
Registered under the Indian Societies Act XXI, 1860, the association four years ago embarked upon a rigorous soccer training program for boys in 20 Tibetan schools in India.
Most are expected to start school within a month of their arrival -- at a grade level commensurate with their ages, thanks to the rigorous English schooling that most boys received at Kakuma.
Linklater contrives a remarkable, rigorous time-lapse study of a boy growing to manhood over 12 years.
