Word: controlable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Government control, simply, as applied, for instance in Massachusetts, can prevent the evils of monopoly...
...Warker museum. Thirty-three exhibitors in the mining building have already offered their exhibits to the university. The exhibit of the Standard Oil Co., valued at $50,000 has been given them. This, however, may be housed in the proposed Columbian Museum, but the university will exercise certain control over it. The establishment of the Columbian museum is looked upon with considerable interest by the authorities of the university, as it will be of incalculable advantage to them...
...master shall be appointed by the Harvard Athletic Association, before each meeting. He shall carry a whistle or horn, and shall control the action of the pack by the following signals: by blowing once to stop, and twice...
With the present number, the Advocate passes into the control of the ninety-five board, though without any marked improvement noticeable in this first issue. In poetry the failing is, as it long has been, that the writers, striving for things beyond their own reach, necessarily produce what is beyond the reach of their readers. It would be an unpleasant admission for them, but their work generally is more interesting the more commonplace it becomes. Few would not take more pleasure in following the fairly easy rhyming and rythm of P. L. Shaw's piece, "The Burial of Alaric," than...
...true that the University exercises no control over these trees from a legal point of view, and yet it has a right to protest against any such outrageous defacement of the college yard. We have come to look upon these trees as a part of our possessions, whether rightly or wrongly. This removal not only will reduce that portion of the yard to a bare and dreary spectacle, but it will also sacrifice a sentiment which every one who is fond of his college associations must be loath to lose. Will not the proper college authorities take a stand against...