Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard. We do not attach much credit to the story. Such a fact of course could be within the bounds of possibility, but we can see no reason why it should be considered probable. There is of course the chance that as the Harvard faculty grows narrower and more stringent in its ideas, the corporation will become more liberal and broad-minded,-that while the one is engaged in hedging athletics round with impossible restrictions, the other may be drifting towards a progressive policy in chapel regulations...
...college matches, her men, although they may be no better men than ours, have a degree of confidence in themselves, a determination not to be disconcerted whatever happens, begotten by many hard games, which serve them most advantageously when they are in a tight place. With the stringent policy of our faculty concerning base-ball it would seem to be impossible for our nine to get practice of the kind which can only be obtained by matches with strong clubs...
...editorial in the Princetonian. It voices the opinions which a great many persons now hold in regard to the importance of the position of referee in a Rugby foot-ball game : "To those who have watched the development of the game in recent years, the inefficiency of the most stringent regulations governing the conduct of the players would have occasioned no surprise. The Harvard game, in New York, was only a practical illustration of the fact that rules will not make a player a gentleman, if he naturally inclines toward ruffianism. The fact of it is, there should...
...most objectionable species of athletic contests is constantly going on at the Hall. We refer to the wrestling matches that take place among the waiters when one attempts to take food from another's table. Now although rules lead to inferences we are strongly of the opinion that certain stringent rules ought to be adopted forbidding all such performances. It is most unpleasant to be a witness of these constantly occurring contests, particularly so since they are in direct violation of all good order. The directors have shown themselves to be heartily in favor of all reforms, and we look...
...least, a very impolite thing to create a disturbance. Nothing could be more rude. If there are any persons at Memorial whose instincts are so refined, whose delicate sense of courtesy is so great that they cannot refrain from noticing an unintentional discourtesy except by a gross insult, then stringent clues ought to be adopted by the association to see that all such be dismissed from the hall, for they are doing much to remove the hitherto prevalent idea that a Harvard student is always a gentleman. If a notice is posted regarding the wearing of hats, and rules...