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Between “Downton” and Professor McGonagall an adoring public saw in Smith an endlessly entertaining, tippling grandmother and that endearing teacher who balanced strictness with caring.

The move reflects the strictness of the stance Penn is taking on how to deal with political protests, an issue universities nationwide have been grappling with following months of demonstrations against the war in Gaza.

In 1869, the British critic Matthew Arnold observed that Protestant Americans had internalized Hebraism’s scourging demands for “conduct and obedience” and “strictness of conscience”:

Now that we’re looking through gaping holes in that fabric, the republic’s fate seems more contingent than ever on its founders’ hope that it could rely on “strictness of conscience” and citizens’ inner beliefs as strongly as on their outward performances and interests.

Children are scared to go to a school run like a "military boot camp" because of a teacher known for his strictness, a parent claims.