Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sure, such an arrangement as I have hastily suggested would necessitate the co-operation of the Faculty, and would take the management of the class exercises away from the exclusive control of the graduating class; but I am not sure that this would prove objectionable, for as this would be a University affair, the College authorities and the undergraduates might not be unwilling to bear a part of the expense. And in the course of a week the desires of every section of the class might be fully satisfied. It may be objected that this involves a destruction...
...inhabited by men accustomed to rely on the University for subsistence; men whose wives are the chief support of their families by boarding, washing, mending, and other offices of the like nature. The husband, in the mean time, is a kind of gentleman at large; exercising an authoritative control over everything within the purlieus of the house; reading news-papers and political pamphlets; deciding on the characters and measures of an administration, and dictating the policy of his country. In almost all families of this class the mother and her daughters lead a life of meritorious diligence and economy, while...
...This change cannot fail to exert an influence on the character of the societies themselves, and so upon the habits of the men who are members of the societies. The change, in our opinion, will be felt in one of two ways. Either the societies, released from the control which their position in the Yard has given the authorities over them, will degenerate into noisy, less respectable, and more attractive institutions, or the interest in them, which cannot now be called intense, will die out altogether. The first result would unquestionably be bad; the second might be either...
...then have the next argument, that the necessary training promotes bodily self-control and a spirit of obedience; which our author answers with a similar conundrum...
...last three weeks complaints have been made about the management, or rather mismanagement, of the bath-rooms in Matthews basement. It seems that these bath-rooms are under the control of one man, who pays nothing to the College for the right of using them and is in no way responsible for the manner in which they are kept. Consequently, several times during the year we have been unable to take our usual bath, on account of the absence of hot water, which in the winter is absolutely necessary; but, worse than all, for the last three weeks the baths...