Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible solution, it suggested that the Committee on Admission's present "wide discretionary power" be used to encourage more strict secondary school preparation where it has become lax, at the same time admitting any student who has demonstrated his academic ability...
Some of the Faculty favoring strict adherence to the classics or to the status quo have been emotional and narrow, but most have attempted serious suggestions to improve the quality of students and instruction in the College. After many decades of confusion, the objectives of education in the "free society" of today have been clearly and ably defined. The realization in the College of the importance of all learning to all people calls for the award of a single degree to all who are graduated. Finally, an arbitrarily-strict admission requirement should not be encouraged by teachers whose ideal...
...inexhaustible treasure of news; he set his reporters to mining it. Unlike American scandal sheets, the News of the World has no "sob sister" interviews with murderers and mistresses; the paper never tries to tell a story before it is told in court, because of Britain's strict libel laws. But its deadpan, detailed coverage of trials-bigamy, rape, murder, adultery-gives Britons a hundred vicarious thrills a week...
...week, in the warmup before the 630 delegates convened, he got the national executive board to change the rules governing state & city industrial councils. Many of these councils are riddled with Reds and have embarrassed C.I.O. with their pro-Communist trumpetings. Under the new rules they will be under strict censorship and surveillance by the executive board (dominated by Murray...
...Tennessee will illustrate to New England, by its hell-for-leather manner of flay, the dry rot and decay which have overthrown the Harvard and Dartmouths and Browns here in a corner of the country where college football players are strict amateurs and play like strict amateurs." November...