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This is no bemused tongue-in-cheekery: punishment through the ages has been rather stringent. In the times of Harvard's earliest classes, as often as not, it consisted of floggings at the cane of the Headmaster. In recent days it has been little less harsh though slightly more subtle--tear gas bombs have been gently lobbed into the midst of revelers, and the most rebellious have been carted away in the Black Marias of the local constabulary...
Should the Freeman plan be rejected, we would all be forced into a race to produce more wheat in order to protect ourselves against the drop in price which would certainly follow. This would loose such an avalanche of overproduction that Congress might well be inclined to pass more stringent controls than ever before. The farmer would indeed find that his short-lived freedom from the frying pan had landed him smack dab in the fire...
...quota system limits each section man to giving only an allotted number of honor grades in his section, said Thomas A. Timberg '64. He said that although other courses use a similar system, "nowhere is it so stringent as it is in Government...
...M.I.T. women who fear that they may lose the independence to which they are accustomed, Fassett was reassuring. "I should hardly think that the new rules will be more stringent than rules at Radcliffe," he said...
Kennedy stated, "The bill is the most stringent attempt to control wiretapping in the last 30 years. It establishes standards which do not now exist." In part, the Wiretapping Bill would define wiretapping procedure for major criminal cases, such as kidnapings, narcotics, and international gambling...