Word: stricter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pierian are to be congratulated in their acquisition of a permanent coach and one so competent as Mr. Loeffler. With his aid and by adopting a stricter policy in regard to membership, the standard of the orchestra promises to be higher in the future. Moreover assurance of good training will doubtless prove an attraction...
PHILADELPHIA, PA., Sept. 30.- The participation of the University of Pennsylvania students in athletic contests will hereafter be under closer supervision and stricter rules than now prevail at any institution of learning...
...Further restriction is unadvisable or impracticable, since-(a) there is no consensus of opinion as to the best means of effecting further restriction (Schloss: 102-110)-(b) further restriction which is not radical in its nature is superfluous and-(c) can be achieved by a stricter enforcement of existing laws...
...this very indifference to training. Now the college sentiment demands a strict enforcement of the rules. It is an imposition for a few players themselves to oppose it. The next two weeks require a man to be in his best possible physical condition and the University expects a stricter obedience...
...evident, at least, that the umpiring had much influence in leading Yale into a character of play which, had there been a stricter umpire, she would not have been allowed to practise. As the game progressed, apparently growing convinced that the umpire was inclined to her side, Yale, unmolested by him, fell more and more into a character of play which we trusted had vanished for good in athletic contests between us and which seems to indicate a lamentable fall in the standard of her athletic playing. Mr. Coffin was far from being strict enough. The rules themselves, perhaps...