Word: controlable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...There is a Loan Fund, the interest of which, amounting annually to about twenty-five hundred dollars, is lent to meritorious students in the sophomore, junior and senior classes, in sums ranging from forty to one hundred dollars. This fund is under the control of a Board of Trustees, in Boston...
...some years the Glee Club has been obliged to go on in a more or less irregular way, as far as meetings and rehearsals were concerned, because it had no room over which it had entire control. Within a week the upper story of the old Hasty Pudding building on Holmes Field, consisting of three rooms, has been secured and henceforth all this confusion will be done away with. The rooms will be provided with the necessary furniture and the painting and repairs required will be done immediately. The pictures and other things belonging to the club will be transferred...
...people. - (a) The interests of Canada lie here because of - (1) Great number of Canadian born in U. S.; N. A. R., vol. 136, p. 326. - (2) Extended markets of the United States; Learned's Report in House Exec. Doc. 1870-71, vol. 8, No. 94. - (b) Destructive English control would be removed; Dublin Review, vol. 35, p. 151; Bourinot; Constitutional Manual of Canada. - (c) Canada's debt would be assumed; Johnson's Statistics of Canada...
...Annexation would be very beneficial to the United States. - (a) By removing danger of invasion from the North; Johnston's Hist. of U. S., pp. 176-180; 192-193; - (b) By giving United States complete control of water-routes and railroads. - (c) By settling all disputes as - (1) Fisheries; 2) Immigration; - (d) By greatly adding to the resources of the country. - (1) Wheat lands. - (2) Forests and Mines; N. A. R., Feb. 1889, pp. 54-73; - (e) By giving great commercial advantages to U. S.; N. A. R. vol. 139, p. 44; Forum, Nov. 1888, pp, 241-256; Boston Herald...
...break the stringent laws enacted against the liquor traffic. Two years ago more than half of these bonds in Boston were held by sixteen men. The shops direct the politics of those who frequent them, and these sixteen men in turn direct the politics of the shops. They thus control the local politics of Boston, and constitute an oligarchy far more dangerous to this common wealth than any man like Caesar or Napoleon ever will be. The open bar is the chief instrument of this ring in the government of Boston. If a supply of the fatal alcoholic poison must...