Word: controlable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...know him when we see him, but to understand how we came to have bosses and what they are, we must first consider the parties in America today. The United States are now governed by two immense corporations, calling themselves the Republican and the Democratic parties. Each party, through control of the primaries by the bosses or rings, becomes dominated by cliques. For no candidates can be chosen at the primaries under boss rule except those men whom the boss allows to be nominated, and the men elected at the primaries determine the men chosen to office. What a boss...
...executive committee of twenty-four members, to be chosen immediately by ballot. Provision is made for balloting by mail at subsequent elections. It is not proposed that this executive committee shall interfere with the managers of teams, dictate the choice of coaches, or attempt in any way to control the undergraduates, nor will it permit the association to become arrayed against either the University authorities, the Athletic Committee, or against any body or individual interested in Harvard Athletics. It will, however, seek to establish intimate relations with all, in full confidence that they are ready and eager to secure such...
...develop, but to restrain. Its work is in a sense purely negative. In many respects this policy of non-interference is wise, but it has a distinct disadvantage, for it makes a permanent policy an utter impossibility. College affairs in these fields may be said to be under the control of the Senior class of each particular year. Each class as it reaches this responsibility attacks the problems it must meet to the very best of its ability, but its time is so short that just as it has learned something by experience and is in a position to accomplish...
...national university, under government control, is to be established in China, with a faculty composed entirely of foreigners...
Japan demands free immigration for her subjects under the treaty of 1871, and silent invasion is what is to be feared. With this influx of Japanese labor and capital will come Japanese control of the Hawaiian government...