Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France only two things count with the university faculties--work and brains. A student may live as he likes, he can take all the class room "cuts" he wishes, but woe to him if he slips up on any of the stern and comprehensive examinations at stated periods. His university education ends right there if he fails to show himself proficient...
Often has the government of stern Dictator Benito Mussolini demanded stiff sums from Italian taxpayers. But last week // Duce was in relenting mood, perhaps because a neighboring dictator had just fallen...
...Columbus, the wheels of governmental action were given a spin. Shocked by 16 school child fatalities from Ohio motor accidents in the past month, Governor Myers Y. Cooper wrote a stern letter to Director of Education John L. Clifton. Said he: "It is evident that these accidents were avoidable if proper precautions had been taken." The Director of Education, in turn, urged two-man bus crews, strict vigilance at grade crossings. The dead driver of the Brook Park bus was held culpable by the coroner...
...Freshman eight, which was barely nosed out in June by the Yale cubs after they had led to within a few hundred feet of the finish line. There is also a wealth of material from last year's Jayvee boat, all the members of which, from stem to stern, are in College and eligible. This crew includes the following men, two or three of whom should be ripe for service in the first boat this spring: S.W. Swaim '31, who last year stroked the University crew against Tech and Cornell but who finally wound up as bow against...
...expressed in the story of the Harvard alumnus who is quoted as saying: "The charge that we of Hahvud are snobbish is absolutely untrue. Why, the year I rowed on the crew, I knew every man in the boat except two or three who sat away down in the stern...