Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drive a car. Therefore in forbidding automobiles at Princeton on the count of reckless driving, the university appears to take the stand that pursuit of learning and not tender years is responsible for accidents. Such perverse application of results of modern education is hardly plausible, even from a rigid dean...
Included in the Oregon plan, and quite typical of the advanced thought of today is the provision for rigid selection at the close of the Sophomore year and its corollary: "A Junior certificate might be granted at the end of the Sophomore year and that regarded as a certificate of graduation and honorable dismissal for those who do not wish to pursue the university course further." This idea is carried still further by Professor Root of Princeton who recommends that only 50 to 75 percent of the entering class be retained as Juniors the remainder being eliminated on both competitive...
...foreign stock issues only by subterfuge. New York state law forbids the Exchange listing them directly. 5) Uncounted U. S. money is buying foreign stocks through private bankers. Much of this foreign stock is sound. But much also is unsound, could not pass the Stock Exchange's rigid tests of reliability. 6) Thoroughly reliable foreign stocks at present have no ready trading market...
...Western Conference has adopted what the Michigan Daily terms a "rigid code of ethics" on the recruiting of high school athletes. The provisions in brief condemn "scholarships, loans, and remissions of tuition of the basis of athletic skill," the endeavor of athletic directors and coaches "by initiation of correspondence, by distribution of literature, and by personal interviews of their own seeking to recruit athletics," and the previous promise of employment to prospective athletes "by the athletic department of the university...
...this "rigid" code distinguishes between illegitimate and so-called legitimate recruiting. Among the methods listed under the latter heading are "banquets to prospective athletes, rushing at interscholastic meets, talks by coaches at high school banquets, the writing by athletic directors to high schools for the names of athletes in the senior class in order to send them information about the university...