Word: controlable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ruling on the quorum is unconstitutional indefinite and dangerous. - (a) Unconstitutional. - (1) Not in accordance with the practice up to 1889; contemporaneous exposition. - (2) A majority prescribed by the constitution. - (3) The House not in absolute control of its own procedure; Consti, Art. 1, $5; Bryce, pp. 129-131. - (b) Indefinite, by being capable of different interpretations; Nation, Feb. 13, 1890, p. 124. - (c) Dangerous. - (1) Rules are intended to protect, not to oppress minorities...
...rules place the control of the House almost exclusively in the hands of one man; McMillin in Cong. Record, vol. 2, App. p. 25; - (a) They injure Congress as a deliberative body; - (b) They enable the speaker to declare bill passed when the rolls show the contrary; Nation, Feb. 13, p. 124; - (c) They make it possible to "railroad" bills through Congress...
Owing to circumstances over which I have no control, I hereby tender my resignation as captain of the Yale Crew...
This Committee has entire supervision and control of all athletic exercises within and without the precincts of the University. The control of athletics is thus taken entirely away from the Faculty. The committee reports once a year to the Corporation but has never received any instructions from them except those accompanying the vote which constituted it. These were contained in the following vote...
...officers of the clubs hope to bring about. The change in the method of selling tickets is the first step and a good one. The concert now loses in considerable degree its public character and becomes an invitation affair. In this way it will be kept within the control of college men. Other changes in the same direction will probably be announced...