But that's not how Ellis was understood by most, and there is a direct line to be drawn between the Ellis article and the self - conscious if tacit defensiveness of the Land O» Lakes statement, which seemed to say, yes, we're second - rate, maybe even third - rate, and the way to be first - rate is to be like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the rest of what would be called, in twenty - first - century
Catholic academic jargon, «aspirational peers.»
The standards were so concise, so
jargon - free, so clear that the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., had
Catholic schools in the nation's capitol teaching Indiana
Academic Standards.