Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...could allow its members to voice freely their thoughts and sentiments either in public or in private, or it could impose a strict censorship upon the character of all speech and "muzzle" the mouths of students and professors alike. No censorship should be imposed upon thoughts or their utterance. If the University were to decree what its professors and students should or should not say, then it would be making itself responsible for any statement made by its members. A university does not profess to exist for that purpose. All of its energies and resources are to be expended...
...Freshmen, and others in the University who need the warning, take notice that a blacklist, more strict and Argus-eyed than ever, is to be kept for the men who sell their football tickets to speculators...
...Inasmuch as the successful working of this agreement depends upon the strict observance of all rules herein contained, each club member shall consider it a mater of honor to maintain such rules...
Probably few undergraduates know under what strict rules the students of Harvard College in early times were governed. From a number of the oldest records and orders of the College overseers, many of them partly destroyed, Albert Matthews '82, who is editing the history of Harvard before 1750 for the Massachusetts Historical Society, has collected and summarized the laws which a student had to obey at that period...
This diversion was abolished by the strict orders of the faculty during Mr. Snow's sophomore year. At that time there was a gymnasium, meagerly furnished, in charge of a colored man, who was looked upon with some degree of awe, for he was said to belong to the noble profession of prize fighters, and even when older was reputed to be skilfull in boxing...