Word: controling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chairman of the State Republican Committee in 1883, and a representative to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses. He was one of the leaders of the majority in the last House where he came into prominence as the chief promoter of a bill to provide for federal control of federal elections. He is an enthusiastic supporter of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt in his Civil Service Reforms and also strongly favors the restriction of undesirable immigration to our shores. In a literary way, Mr. Lodge is well known as the author of "A Short History of the English Colonies...
...open to cheap and pauper labor. These foreigners do not understand our ways of government. They cannot distinguish between unrestricted freedom and liberty, thus anarchism and the numerous cliques and secret societies, with all their evils, arise. Law is the expression of public sentiment and if we put the control of elections into the hands of the immigrant our law will not represent the sentiment of the more educated classes and from this untold harm may result...
Professor Chaplin makes some remarks on the plan introduced a year ago by which the school was placed under the control of an Administrative Board. The board has worked "most harmoniously" and indeed is considered as an improvement on the former plan...
...despatch from Hanover announces that at Tuesday's "session of the Dartmouth College Trustees it was voted to grant to the alumni the control of the athletics of the college." Dartmouth seems thus to be following the lead of the larger colleges in entrusting her athletic interests to her graduates. This plan of regulation is now looked upon as most productive of good results. It is well known that Yale's athletics are almost exclusively regulated by her graduates; while the graduate members of the Athletic Committee and the Graduate Advisory Boards have practical control of athletics here at Harvard...
...some time before May 1. This will leave the rival University Athletic Association to secure without opposition the Berkeley Athletic property at Forty-fourth Street. The Athletic Club has a membership already of over one hundred, and this will soon be doubled. The council of twenty which will have control of the club is now made up and is as follows: George A. Adee. Yale, president; Edward D. Appleton, Trinity; Collin Armstrong, Amherst; Wendell Baker, Harvard; Henry W. Banks Jr., Williams; Henry Stanford Brooks, Yale; Robert C. Cornell, Columbia; Cornelius C. Cuyler, Princeton; George Walton Green, Harvard; Tracy H. Harris...