Word: controlable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Harvard Bicycle club last evening the following motion was passed unanimously: That the Harvard Bicycle club give control of racing, and all money so far subscribed by the college for racing purposes, into the hands of a new and entirely separate association so be formed after the present meeting has adjourned. Membership in the new association to be open to any man in the university on payment of the prescribed fee, either hereafter or as a previous subscription to the H. B. C. racing fund-no member of the H. B. C. to be entitled to membership...
...Seaver said that one of the first qualifications of a teacher should be control. He could scarcely imagine a more unhappy man than one who chose teaching as his vocation without possessing this qualification. Each man must solve the problems for him self which arise in the profession. The men who is in doubt as to the choice of teaching for his vocation should get employment in some school and decide the question in the light of a few years' experience. Formerly it was the custom of college men to acquire experience by teaching the district schools, but these...
...present lack of an International Copyright law permits injustice to foreign authors, (a) their productions are their own personal property-Report Common Pleas 89; (b) they have no control over their publications in America-Library Journal II, p. 250; (c) they receive no compensation-Library Journal...
...Graves, '91, has been elected chairman of the Yale Record board for the ensuing year. The new board will assume control of the paper after the spring vacation...
...Yale News in criticising the 'varsity crew this week says: "The general faults of the men are that they do not control their slides on the recover, the finish is poor, they are apt to let up their power on the end of the stroke, have a tendency to bury their oar on the catch, and do not get their power on together on the catch...