Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entrance requirements in Latin for men who aim for the A.B. degree, are almost as stringent as they are unique. Up to last year, the rules for Latin were severe enough, inasmuch as they ordered each candidate to pass the Board Latin examinations 1, 2, 4, and 5. Now, however, the requirements are to be satisfied by taking the comprehensive examinations 3 and 4, which means that the student must be tested on "sight" translation only, instead of, in part, upon his prepared Latin authors. In the case of the man who offers advanced Latin for admission, the rule...
...prevalence of infantile paralysis more than four years ago, or possibly the more recent epidemic of influenza, has the country been menaced with any malady so dangerous to our national health. So critical has the situation become that the United States Public Health Service has been forced to impose stringent sanitary regulations on immigrants; and Italy, by closing her frontiers, has temporarily suspended emigration from Central Europe to the United States...