Word: checks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...every man who is entitled to vote should make an effort to be present. The new plan is the outcome of a feeling that the choice of managers should be based upon a uniform system rather than that the authorities in each sport should select new assistants with no check except the nominal requirement of approval by the Athletic Committee. The voters cannot all be expected to know the candidates personally, nor are they always fitted to judge of the executive ability of the men proposed. They should not, however, feel that this excuses them from attendance at the elections...
...letter sent to all members of the Union, the Library Committee has requested co-operation in an attempt to check the systematic borrowing or stealing of books which has taken place this year. Of actual thefts no comment is necessary other than the expression of a hope that the perpetrators will eventually be ascertained. The individuals, however, who borrow or hide books which are much in demand may be amenable to reason and to a recognition of the rights of fellow members. Recently a certain book was prescribed in Philosophy E. Immediately the volume disappeared from the library...
...population. In all the struggles the people will be at a continual disadvantage, having poor equipment and no unity or confidence in each other. The political advancement of the people can be attained only by moral education, and while this is being fostered, the population must be held in check by the aristocracy...
...expense, and a necessary one if we are to have first-class teams; but extravagance in training tables in the buying and use of uniforms and other supplies, and duplication and loose ends of various sorts run the expenses of the big teams up to lavish amounts. The best check on expenditures would probably be a graduate manager for all sports, such as Cornell has, with authority over all purchases and payments and accountability for all receipts. At present, the undergraduate managers have a pretty free hand in the spending of money...
...complaint is sometimes heard that there are too many restrictions and regulations governing college athletics. This may be true. What is equally true is that these regulations and restrictions have not been established to fit a theory, but are the results of attempts to check or control actual abuses, actual dangers, and to meet actual emergencies and difficulties, or actual criticisms and demands from fellow institutions. These assertions could be verified by a study of athletics at Harvard during the past quarter of a century. The present body of rules has been the slow product of years of trial...