Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last Spring and was practically certain to be made some time or another. It means, in the main, that forward passing in the third zone will be allowed, that the goal tender will be permitted to go down on the ice to make a save, and that the more stringent professional penalty rules will be enforced...
That section of the population who would support plays of a higher calibre either go to New York to satisfy their theatrical appetites or else stay at home in Boston, repelled from the theatre by stupid and unnecessarily stringent censorship. It is useless to blame the producers or the dramatist if the city insists upon emasculating nearly every play that ventures into this frigid atmosphere...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology it was stated that this institution is faced with the necessity of limiting its student body. This is to be done by increasing the severity of the regulations which determine whether or not a student may remain in the institute and not by more stringent entrance requirements...
...Pennsylvania athletic system has been for some years in need of revision. The university had fallen behind her sister colleges in the development of intramural athletics, Some highly paid coaches were unpopular. The necessity for a more stringent control of athletic endeavor was obvious. Consequently the wholesale dismissal of non-teaching coaches and the reorganization of the athletic department under university guidance, are necessary steps in the attempt to remove professionalism and over-emphasis...
...seems entirely possible, the Rollins experiment goes the way of all flesh and suffers from the lack of that vital infused spirit which transcends all systems, there could be no more stringent method of education than Dr. Holt's. For at Rollins, through the organization of the curriculum, the student is given less responsibility for the planning of his own life than at some of the older and more dreary colleges. And however deadening routine intellectual methods may be, the routine of actual living is more mentally stultifying. It is also conceivable that under less stimulating teachers, Rollins College...