Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present, under conditions which it seems to me are inherent to the segregation of the class, the first year men are under the control of a group of men who, except for the Freshman deans, have other interests which must come ahead of the Freshmen's welfare. They are tutors, or instructors, or graduates students, or professors first, and advisers to the Freshmen second. So long as a Freshman is not involved in disciplinary or scholastic difficulties they have no reason even for making his acquaintance...
...access to New York depends upon a trackage agreement with Reading Railroad. A minority Reading stockholder, the B. & O. has applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for control of the road...
...into its affairs in a big way. The Commission summoned Archibald Robertson Graustein, president of International Power & Paper Co., which lately, through its subsidiary. International Paper Co., acquired stock in the Boston Herald and Traveler (TIME, April 22), to tell about his company's interest in and potential control of newspapers...
...press that owns the paper company. However, Mr. Graustein was able to cite the case of William Harrison, British paper maker, who owns a chain of newspapers and magazines (TIME, March 25). Conscious nonetheless of the U. S. tradition against any invasion of the freedom of the press or control of it by special interests, Mr. Graustein declared that in no case did his company own a controlling share in any paper. Said he: "I have never met an editor of any of the papers. We have nothing to do and do not want to have anything to do with...
Failure to hit in the pinches and the excellent control of the opposing pitcher caused the Freshman baseball team to meet its third defeat of the season by a 3 to 1 verdict, at the hands of the Dartmouth cubs, Saturday at Hanover. This game, which was the first to be played away from home by the first-year nine, broke the record of four straight wins, and enabled the Indians to keep their slate clean...