Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which may be tainted with the bigotry of the past ages. All this is very pleasing; but, before we become too boastful, let us remember that it is only ten years that we have enjoyed this system, and that before that time the College was as much under political control as it well could be. Then the Governor was, ex officio, an Overseer, (and this in a State where Ben Butler has several times come so near gracing the gubernatorial chair!) The other Overseers were elected by the Legislature. Any one who will look over the list of Overseers previous...
...students during the entire academic year. In the same building (which is devoted exclusively to the use of the school) all the exercises of the school are conducted. In a room adjoining the library is a Reading-Room, containing newspapers and periodicals, and under the control of the students. The students are resident in Cambridge, and the work of the school constitutes their chief occupation and interest. Questions relating to their common pursuit are constantly the subject of conversation and discussion among the members of the school, and the stimulating and invigorating effect of this constant social intercourse among...
...voted to guarantee that the price of board at Memorial Hall from September 28 to December 23, 1876, inclusive, shall not exceed five dollars a week. It was also voted that Professor Cooke, Mr. Allen Danforth, and Mr. A. S. Thayer be requested to act as a committee to control the expenditures of the Dining Association on behalf of the Corporation during the period covered by the guaranty...
Rowing, as practised to-day, is a science, and must be studied as such. Crews may differ from year to year in bone and muscle, but these are differences over which we have but little or no control. The energies of Harvard's leading boating-men should, then, be directed to the manner of rowing, or to what the English call "form." Much has been said and written about the famous "Harvard stroke." I do not hesitate to brand such trash with the name of buncombe, and I earnestly beg Harvard's aquatic chiefs not to be beguiled by like...
Again, you may say with bitterness that my advice to you comes too late, - that you have already done several things of which you are ashamed. All right. Don't do any more; and if you can control yourself in the future you will have obtained experience that will be valuable to you as a man of the world. I have nothing left but to beg a thousand pardons for this long sermon from