Word: controller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a physical examination, but a mental and emotional inspection also. "Hundreds of students" says Dr. Faunce, "are held back by mental conditions of which their best friends are often unaware." This ought to be a platitude. And to seek a remedy for introspective unbalance is to attempt to control what ordinarily, like Topsy, just grows. It is to enter a field of progress more fundamental than pedagogical reform or curricula revision, but unfortunately not so well known. Men now juggle the mechanical details of education with some confidence. When, however, they enter with dogma into the realm of psychology...
...this office and its duties in view Three other members should be appointed and it is strongly to be recommended that the respective treasurers of the three upper classes should be represented, either as active or as ex-officio members of this committee. This body should be in complete control of the Budget, subject only to the authority of the Student Council itself, and should be responsible for the collection and the expenditure of the funds involved...
Dollars. On the Pacific littoral, that astute, thin-bearded Scotsman, Robert ("Robbie") Dollar, working these last few years through his able son, R. Stanley Dollar, has jibbed and tacked shipping so skillfully that transpacific commerce moves under his virtual control. Some 30 months ago he bought seven "President" steamers from the U. S. Shipping Board. The Board was glad to sell. At the same time the Dollars (as the Admiral-Oriental Line) were operating for the Board five other "President" boats from Seattle to Japan, China, the Philippines and return, and the competitive Pacific Mail Steamship Co. was operating five...
...only solution of the British coal problem, which was the sole occasion for the recent general strike, is the unification of the industry under national control," said the Honorable Rennie Smith, M. P., in his talk on the British strike at the Union last Saturday...
Since this land is not wholly in the control of the College, opportunity has presented itself to establish profane hotels instead of placid dormitories, or dilatory movies in place of industrious squash courts. For defeating the latest attempt to invade the precincts marked off by their position for University use, gratitude is due to Mr. C. C. Stillman '98. He has given two important tracts, situated in the region reserved for undergraduate clubs and dormitories...