Word: controller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greater control of athletic policy should be vested in undergraduates. Policies should be largely decided by them, while the technical arrangements can be arranged by graduates. Athletics, including football, are managed for the entertainment of the undergraduates and not the alumni...
...laws limiting teachers to definite economic, political or religious theories popularly current, and penalizing with dismissal any unorthodoxy or original thought in any one of these fields, have followed upon each other, with startling rapidity. Furthermore, state universities have often been drawn directly into the political field through the control of the Governor over the Board of Regents, or whatever the university governing body may be named. The most recent and flagrant example of this second type of abuse of power was the arbitrary removal of Dr. Henry Guzzallo, President of the University of Washington. It was charged...
...total profit of one and a quarter billion Belgian francs ($35,000,000). My most famous attempted 'deal' was an offer to loan $100,000,000 to Belgium and France wherewith to stabilize their currencies. This fell through when it was discovered that I demanded personal control of the state finance of both countries during the stabilization period...
...solution, but in emulsion. The negative wire of an electrical circuit is attached to any desired mold, which is placed in the emulsion. The positive wire is suitably attached to the container. Then the flowing current drives the particles of rubber on to the mold. There is absolute control of the process at all times...
...about 1806--more than a century after Yale had been founded in protest against the earlier unorthodoxy of Harvard--what was to become the Unitarian movement got the upper hand in control of the university. In the struggles of religious liberalism against orthodoxy that enlivened the beginnings of the nineteenth century the "Christ at Eclesiee" part of the motto was removed. Harvard was out for the truth no matter where...