Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mere fact of special limitation was bound to cause the abandonment of the strict democratic precepts as soon as the mass of the population realized their opportunities and began to take advantage of them in large numbers. Already, while this stage is still incomplete, restrictions are steadily becoming more stringent. The standards are no longer those of wealth and family, and aim, rather unsurely as yet, towards other based on the mental and moral qualities of the individual, but nevertheless education in the colleges at least, is no longer for all. An aristocracy is again growing up, but one better...
...second wife under the old polygamous law of Turkey. Paradoxically he turned to this same old law when he wished to divorce his second wife, and accomplished the deed simply by repeating three times the traditional formula: "I divorce you." Shortly thereafter the new Turkish code, containing Occidentally stringent divorce laws, came into effect...
...value of the study of Anglo-Saxon, inevitable fate of any man having aspirations toward a Summa Cum Laude in the Department of English in Harvard College, is questioned by the Daily Princetonian in a recent editorial. One gathers that the situation is even more stringent at that University than here at Cambridge. The Princetonian decries the fact that "undergraduates are forced to take this course"' and the Princetonian objects, although conscious that such objections are likely to fall on deaf ears...
...further opportunity to prove his self-reliance and his abilities for creative work. The saving grace of the whole scheme of both lectures and tutorial work lies in such a mediative policy, for at present the tutorial and needs strengthening and the course requirements need to be made less stringent. The balance between the two methods once attained, Harvard's plan of education will be as effective in the American locale as is Oxford's in the English...
...biography at his face value. Writing in the manner of fiction, she draws bold conclusions from his actions, makes no attempt to soften his cruelties on the excuses of religious mania. Yet human beings are more important than idols and the First Methodist is not diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that portion of the public who associates...