Word: stringent
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...letter, released by Edward M. Abramson '57, president of the Council. Leighton said "my personal conviction (is) that more stringent enforcement of the University rules is called for at the present time...
With a new zeal that bordered on perfectionism, Ike threw himself anew into soldiering. Serving nearly three years (1922-24) in Panama with a little-known man of fire, Brigadier General Fox Conner, Ike did such a stringent job as executive officer that many of his juniors have neither forgotten nor forgiven. In his spare hours he buried himself in extracurricular study of maps, charts and treatises of the great historical campaigns prescribed by his mentor Fox Conner. Night after night (Mamie went home to Denver to have another child-son John) the intense young major and the spark-eyed...
...rationale is the University's feeling of obligation to act as an entity in a manner befitting a responsible citizen, does such an obligation justify the more stringent enforcement of the law on certain members of the larger community, ie the students, than on others. University fines, to which only students are subject, are higher than Cambridge fines...
Dartmouth Test Stringent...
...criticisms could stand further reflection. Brandeis is first of all a university--a school founded by the Jewish community "as a corporate contribution to American higher education." If, as a school, it has sought also to exemplify the more commendable aspects of "Americanism" but has not done so with stringent purity or absolute success I see no reason to interpret its efforts as hypocrisy. It may be wishful thinking for Brandeis to build a 2-1-1 chapel arrangement for a school with a present 12-1-1 religious ratio but it strikes me as anything but hypocritical. The painfully...