Word: control
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conclusion, Mr. Chaplin wished to emphasize the fact that the university is not a reformatory institution. The faculty refuses to hamper good men in order partially to control the very small percentage of bad men. In so large an institution as Harvard the government has no time to attempt the reformation of individual bad students. If a man is unworthy of Harvard, the only course open to the faculty is to force him to leave college...
...stringent national electoral law would be against the best interests of the country. It would violate the custom of our republican institutions. (a) by breaking down the principle of local self-control. (b) by tending toward too great centralization of popular government...
...intended to make political capital for the republican party. It would give the negro (a) a balance of power in many southern states and (b) absolute control in others-Nation...