Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepted policy of the faculty to allow members of their courses as much freedom as is feasible in their study. This freedom, a basic principle in a university, has always been applied to the conduct of students in the Houses and the Yard, restricted only by the not-to-stringent Parietal rules. The fact that Harvard in general is allowed this freedom is one reason why it is listed among the universities instead of among the girls boarding schools. Yet we find intelligent persons suggesting that college authority should be more strict...
Under the new lenient regulations, students will undoubtedly cut their classes before and after the Thanksgiving holiday. Let us hope this will not mean the return of stringent regulations on vacation cuts, of monitorships, and of the other accoutrements of schoolboy disciplinarianism. The solution lies not through the chastisement of students, through turning the colleges into a concentration camp, but through the remodelling along modern and logical lines of the vacation itself, making it last from Thanksgiving through the next week...
...Oxford and Cambridge, less fortunate, had a stringent set of Tests and Oaths imposed on them by Charles II. The consequence was that . . . college fellows and tutors found that the safe way to hold their places was to renounce all liberty of writing, speech, or thought; and both universities became for a long period contemptible as places of learning...
...answer and solution is obvious. The libel laws must be made more stringent. The prosecuting attorneys must be made liable to them. Newspapers must not be excused from them by the formality of an adjective. Idealism must be abolished...
...beleve to be a significantly novel popular psychology. Business men as a group have begun to realize that unregulated monopoly and labor exploitation are phenomena which must belong to a dead age if democratic institutions are to continue. In the light of this insight, they have voluntarily submitted to stringent regulation be governmental agencies. Wall Street has accepted the SEC; The I.C.C. dominates the field of railroads with the approval of big business. Such are isolated examples of a new spirit among capitalist leaders which indicates the possibility of a peaceful solution of the class struggle. To such new developments...