Word: control
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purpose of its organization and that football ought now to be regulated by managers as are the other teams. But this method has its disadvantages, and there is a scheme on foot to organize an association to be known as the Cornell Athletic association, which is to have control over all athletic sports and contests. The following were the officers of the past year: President, W. G. Howells, '90; secretary, F. D. Davis, '90; treasurer and manager, J. A. Williams...
...assertion you make in your issue of the 26th inst., that "for years it (a dual league) has been talked of and considered the final solution of all difficulties? " Has not this talk been confined to Harvard, and if so is it not worse than useless? Yale has complete control in the matter, as she is wanted by all parties. When she submits to us a proposition for a dual league, it will be well enough to consider the matter. But to do so now surely puts us in an attitude undignified and cowardly, gives Princeton an undeserved snub...
...acts. And so there is no distinction between the natural and the supernatural. There is nothing unthinkable in this conception. Miracles cease to become violations of natural laws, and is simply the evidence that there is a superior power at work in the universe, a power that can control the laws of its own making...
...feathered with the wrists; the hands are shot away at once in the same plane with the arms, and with the assistance of the powerful muscles of the shoulder, while the arms quickly resume their proper place. The ease and rapidity of these actions increase the speed and control the equilibrium. The muscles are exerted equally, and the erect trunk permits the lungs to be filled with deep draughts...
Resolved, That the telegraph be under government control...