Word: disciplinarian
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Famed as a disciplinarian, he took the unpopular post-War job of British High Commissioner to Egypt (1919-25). The thankless business of suppressing Egyptian riots is supposed to have lost him an earldom. A squarejawed, heavyset, vigorous man, he specialized in English and Spanish literature and in his collection of birds, live and dead. For special pets he had a war-horse called Hindenburg and a marabou stork...
Furthermore, in line, I suppose, with your political views, the suggestions you make are extremely reactionary, and would reverse the presumable progress of the last 30 years toward greater and greater freedom for students, more and more of what President Lowell called "self-education", as opposed to school-boy disciplinarian...
...Navy ranks the news of their new CINCUS caused one cheer, two shivers. One shiver was for "Jappy" Hepburn's reputation as an iron disciplinarian who has "broken" many a transgressing officer. Another shiver, among Navy hardshells, was for his reputation as a forthright, positive, energetic officer with an amenable spirit toward governmental economy and international amity, a determined regard for 6-inch guns. The cheer was for the new commander's reputation as a thoroughly experienced, altogether first-class Navy...
...division of degrees into two classes, in line with the division of the student body, seems unnecessary if the standard of non-tutorial men can be raised to a sufficiently high level. This out plan for increased course work and more thorough, disciplinarian methods attempts...
...Author. Born at Clifton, Tenn. 53 years ago, Thomas Sigismund Stribling has never wandered far from his spiritual home. Tall, baldish, professorial-looking, with a prognathous but benevolent jaw, he started out to be a schoolteacher, failed as a disciplinarian. Though he looks like a bachelor he is married. Familiar with hackwriting, he served a long apprenticeship turning out Sunday School stories, detectification, melodrama. When he wrote Teeftallow (1926), a story of his Tennessee hill country, critics first began to notice him. Last April U. S. radio-listeners followed suit, when his radio novel, Conflict, began to be broadcast over...