Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father's English parsonage and at strict Westminster School, Christopher Windley Lonsdale "was brought up to respect a hickory stick. He thinks it did him good. When he emigrated to western Canada as a young man, he was appalled at the way sassy schoolboys talked to their elders. Since western Canada had no private schools to turn out little gentlemen, Lonsdale started...
Withdrawals, coupled with some half-way participation, cut the actual core staff of the Social Service Committee down to a loyal 130 who are always on the job. This means large slices of week-day afternoons and evenings. Although settlement houses in the strict tradition are always available for the neighborhood (the name itself derives from the fact that social workers actually 'settled' in the poorer districts by living in the houses), the heavy traffic comes from 3:30 to 5:30 and from 7:30 until closing time. Kindergartens in the morning do not involve Harvard men. But teen...
Twice each week during the fall, enthusiastic but undertrained House football teams clash in a series of games characterized by violence rather than any strict observance of gridiron etiquette. The games to decide an intramural champion are marred by a barrage of un-called penalties and totally unnecessary injuries. Ostensibly conducted under full collegiate rules, House football betrays a sandlot amateurism that threatens to execute players instead of plays...
...even the most rigidly enforced penalty system cannot avert injuries when the men playing House football are in poor physical condition. When players complained of the strict conditioning program of 1942 and 1943, a softic Athletic Department cased required training and the injury list blossomed. This year with only a week and a half of pre-season practice and only one day of practice per week, players are unable to maintain the stamina and hardness necessary to avoid injury. To add further to a general picture of murderous laxity, House teams do not always observe the meager...
While government agencies rushed relief to New England communities engulfed by forest fires, Cambridge authorities last night maintained strict security measures to prevent any local outbreaks...