Word: disciplinarian
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Despite his reserve, Pusey is universally acclaimed a "good sport" by the students. A few carp that hi is too strict a disciplinarian, but concede that regulations at Lawrence are tougher than at most colleges and that someone must enforce them. At convocations, he unloosens his dignity a bit and takes part in the skits. In "The Shooting of Dangerous Dan McGrew," a recent offering, Pusey donned a false mustache and celluloid pop eyes to play a bartender...
Despite his reserve, Pusey is universally acclaimed a "good sport" by the students. A few carp that hi is too strict a disciplinarian, but concede that regulations at Lawrence are tougher than at most colleges and that someone must enforce them. At convocations, he unloosens his dignity a bit and takes part in the skits. In "The Shooting of Dangerous Dan McGrew," a recent offering, Pusey donned a false mustache and celluloid pop eyes to play a bartender...
...movie opens with the arrival of a new teacher at a small village school. He finds that the retired teacher, a strict disciplinarian, has managed to stifle any student interest in studies. Mr. Pascal, the new man, soon succeeds in making the students interested in their work...
...first group of preceptors. A devoted student of the classics and a student of the noisy world outside the college gates, he never gave up the fight against excessive nationalism, "money madness" and snobbery, every attempt to muzzle civil liberties and academic freedom. As Princeton's chief disciplinarian for two decades, he commanded the respect and affection of thousands of erring undergraduates by a combination of strict fairness and good-humored understanding, was once epitomized in the "Faculty Song" of Princeton's senior class...
Papagos, at 68, is Greece's No. 1 military hero (he beat the Italians in 1940), an ardent royalist and disciplinarian. But for the past six months the hawk-nosed commander's loyalty to King Paul has tangled with his belief in military discipline. Trouble started over a crony of the King's, one Aristides Metaxas,* a suave, impeccably dressed political aide. A military court had passed a death sentence on a Communist collaborator, a wealthy merchant who donated money to the Reds. The collaborator's relatives asked Metaxas to intervene. Soon thereafter the King commuted...