Word: control
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would be undesirable to allow a private corporation to own and control the canal. - (a) It would give foreign nations an opportunity to secure control. - (b) The policy of the U. S. in making its own internal improvements should be extended to apply to this case. - (c) In private hands the canal would be operated for private benefit and not for public good...
...athletic annex to a college or university involves a needless expenditure of money. Athletics almost double the expenses of the student. Where athletics have become popular in an institution, it has taken control of the institution, it has taken control of the work of that institution. All the honors are distributed among: the athletes. The man with the most muscle is the Great Mogul. To day Russell is Governor of Massachusetts, not because of his great intellect, but through the patronage of Harvard athletes. The object of college training is not to turn out Kilrains and Sullivans, but to sharpen...
...Having now no desire to make prominent his individual will the subjects capacity for imitation, which is ordinarily marked by an assertive individuality, becomes the prominent thing. Under these conditions he shows the remarkable susceptibility to suggestion, characteristic of the hypnotic state. But the hypnotizer has nothing like unlimited control over the subject. Some suggestions will be rejected as incongruous...
...many good reasons why it is not always convenient to work early in the evening. If a man begins his study at all late, he seldom has time enough to become really absorbed in his work before the doors are closed upon him. We would remind those who control these libraries of the inconveniences to which many are now subjected and to ask that, if possible, better arrangements be made...
...must then subdue our bodies to His spirit. This season of Lent is a special time for self sacrifice and so it is a good thing to give up some self-indulgence to teach our bodies that the spirit is master, and to see that we can control ourselves...