Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question. As regards the employment of her submarines, Germany, instead of withholding her threat until the moment of capture, as is the British practice, gives warning in advance that any vessel entering the prescribed area does so at its own risk. At the same time she mitigates the rigor of this decree by providing a restricted sea-lane which may be used by American passenger vessels with impunity. This restriction constitutes, to be sure, a decided handicap; but one can only ask: "What regard has the British Admiralty shown, during the course of the war, for the rights or convenience...
...many members of the regiment, and not many citizens of the neighborhoods which the regiment will invade in the course of its Sunday adventures, still hold to the Puritan idea of Sunday in all its ancient rigor. But there are still a great many on both sides who would regret to see the distinction between this day and the rest wiped out, or even to see the American Sunday become indistinguishable from the Continental Sunday. Whether this idea is a prejudice, a sentiment, or a religious principle, it deserves our respect; and we shall not recommend the regiment...
...scholarship of those already engaged in activities. The main difficulty with the proposition is that it is purely arbitrary. The speakers agreed that the several organizations would not be bettered, and that while the plan might induce more to enter competitions, scholarship would not be improved, for the rigor of competitions would be increased accordingly as the number of activities for each man were decreased. The conclusions of the Forum were that no such restrictions should be imposed on college students, who should be encouraged in all-around development...
With a setting that would please Gordon Craig and a rigor and a moral lesson that would have interested as audience of the fourteenth century, the Irish Players last evening acted a "Morality" of one act that peculiarly appealed to persons from Cambridge, that pleased a large audience and perhaps, in some measure, afforded them a lesson. It is called "The Hour Glass," by Mr. Yeats...