Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...invariably a state employee--was, of all nations, Czaristic Russia. Under the "Tchin," or semimilitary hierarchy instituted by Peter the Great and in force up to the revolution, a Russian college professor had the rank and salary of a lieutenant-colonel. Evan in Germany, where a similar, if less rigid, standardization of officialdom prevailed, the professor's rating was that of a major only. --New York Tribune...
...system of compulsory athletics for Freshmen is on the verge of its first year. Rigid examinations are being arranged with view to ascertaining for what form of sport the men are fitted. All available equipment is being prepared for the use of the many members...
Because of the rigid enforcement by the Cambridge Fire Department of the technicalities of the City Fire Code, the Committee in charge of the 1921 Smoker, scheduled for tomorrow night in the Union, has announced that the entertainment has been indefinitely postponed. The authorities refused a permit for the smoker when they learned that the Senior Class was holding its smoker there this evening. The Fire Department stated that it was contrary to rules to permit two entertainments to be held in the Union on two successive nights. The reason for the regulation being in the Code is unknown. Sometime...
...United States Army can only use three out of every four college men who present themselves for service there is clearly something the matter. We do not leave to a student's decision the choice of the improvement of his mind--the regulations laid down by the Faculty are rigid--but the question of exercise we leave entirely to his own volition. The Athletic Association deserves credit for having done all in its power to make voluntary athletics universal in the University. It is not its fault that the present system operates only for the comparative few. But since everything...
...those who are here for other purposes, boding ill to American institutions, should be eliminated at once. These two divisions of the "foreign" element require of us education and deportation respectively. Until these two problems are solved, however, a third measure is immediately necessary. It is the rigid restriction or prohibition of immigration for the next few years. Each time such a bill has appeared in Congress it has secured stronger support, so that the present immigration bill is very likely to become law in the next few months. Its purpose is to safeguard the present and future of America...