Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present laws restricting immigration are stringent enough, since-(a) they serve directly to keep out (1) criminals; (2) diseased persons; (3) persons unable to support themselves; (4) contract laborers, (Schloss, (71-78).- (b) they indirectly compel great care on the part of steamship companies in selectiong emigrants (Schloss...
...clearly understood that this action of the Department of French is not intended to interfere with the right of any student or outsider to offer his services as tutor to any who may require them, or to compel students to place themselves under the direction of men officially approved. As, on the other hand, no one qualified to tutor, and of good standing in the University, can fail to be placed on the list, it will also be plain that the best choice for a student to make is from the names on the list...
...whole thing resolves itself into the question as to whether Yale is a college or a university. If it is a college it may be a proper thing to compel students to attend religious exercises; but a university demands a more liberal spirit. Yale's present system. I am free to say, is not in keeping with the university standard. The Yale man's average age is growing older year by year. I have been instructing here twenty years, and the average age of the men has grown two years in that time. A more ideal university standard than that...
...Indeed, not a few instructors have freely stated that the course was a bore and they took little interest in it. If the effort were made to make the course at least more interesting, to improve many of the details and - since it seems necessary - to enforce regulations to compel students to work better the course would be more effective. We do not criticise the work of any one year; some instructors have given good forensic subjects while others have given poor; some have enforced the rules rigidly while others have not; but with them all there has appeared...
...seats are exceedingly narrow and painfully uncomfortable. It is almost impossible for ladies, and especially elderly ladies, to sit on these seats during a whole game, besides it is an injustice to the holders of these seats to compel them to pay the same price as for the other seats and give them such abominable seats. It would only take a comparatively small sum to make the seats perfectly comfortable, and it should be done for the sake of the ladies who will wear the crimson on that...