Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Judge Gaynor said that the obligations of the educated young man to the community are to preserve the rights of the individual and through them the freedom of our government. Personal freedom is emphatically at the bottom of our government and to preserve it against arbitrary control should be the purpose of the college man. Political problems, such as the tariff and socialism, should be dealt with rationally. Constructive policy and a fixed purpose persistently followed lead to success. The government must be kept under control; it must control the corporate interests which, through railroad rate discrimination have made trusts...
Slater will start the game this afternoon, and will probably be replaced by Hicks. Both of these pitchers are in better shape than any of the others on the squad. Slater is using an underhand delivery which he has well under control and which is also speedy. Hicks pitches overhand; his curves break sharply and his straight balls have considerable jump...
...plan of supporting the telescope in position is the same as that devised by Dr. Common, but changes have been made in method of observation and mechanism of control. Instead of being mounted on pedestals of cast iron, cement or masonry firmly built into the ground, as most large telescopes are, it rests on a great hollow cylinder immersed in a tank of water. A tank lined with thick walls of solid concrete was first sunk in the ground, and in this receptacle, ballasted with about 10 tons of iron at its lower end, floats the steel cylinder forming...
...fourth cause that he assigns for failure is that "the city taxpayers have lost control over the expenditures of the tax money they have paid in." "Fifthly, the unit of area for taxation is so defined geographically that a just system of taxation has in many cases become impossible, and great wastes in the various branches of the city administration are inevitable." One of the most important causes is that "the practices of corporations that need public franchises have been often corrupt." And finally, "legislative remedies for these evils have been hindered by a false theory that a city ought...
...bill providing for the establishment of a National University has been introduced into the National House of Representatives by Representative McKinley of Illinois. The university is to be located at Washington and is to be under the control of a board of trustees consisting of the Commissioner of Education and twelve members appointed by the President, one to retire each year. The bill further provides for an advisory council consisting of one member from each state to be appointed by the Governor of the state, preferably the president of the state university. None of these officers are to receive...