Word: controller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expert investigators are appointed, reports are published and subject to review, funds are collected upon the basis of these findings, and the college is started upon a declared basis of action the terms of which are subject to the strictest scrutiny and the conditions of which are under the control of competent observers. The results of these experiments should, within a few years, be available to the educational world and several questions to which there is today no adequate reply should be answered...
...would lay particular stress upon the scientific nature of the experiments now under way as differentiating the new institutions from the old. What shapply marks off scientific experiment in any social science from the ordinary efforts of groups is the control of the conditions under which the experiment is conducted. For control we must have adequate funds trained observers, and accurate recording. All these terms are met in the experiments now under way; and for the first time we may expect to be in possession of results upon the given causes of which we may place reliability...
...Athletic Sports held last evening, it was-voted to approve the trips of the track and tennis teams, combined with those of Yale, to England to oppose the combined teams of Oxford and Cambridge this summer. This decision is still dependent upon the action of the Board of Control of Yale University...
...Governing Board is composed of three graduates and three members of the faculty of the University. It has supreme control of the affairs of the Union, and the undergraduate officers are responsible...
There had been 20 hours of final test-flying at Hampton Roads. Both planes had functioned perfectly when, loaded to weigh ten tons each, they set off (though No. 1, with Lieutenant Connell at the controls, had some difficulty rising). All night the flyers' radio reports told of perfect control and conditions-until dawn, when, cutting across Cuba, Commander Bartlett was obliged to report that his ample oil supply was unaccountably being exhausted. The motors were evidently "oil hogs." He descended at dawn at Nueva Gerona on the Isle of Pines, the non-stop flight half frustrated...