Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game where the man on the mound will be the significant figure, Ed Wadsworth may well turn out to be the Crimson's answer to Kirby. Though last year he had almost hopelessly poor control, Wadsworth now seems to have overcome this difficulty. Still far from making every pitch a strike, he has, nonetheless, done excellent work in three outings this spring...
...Quantico, Wadsworth hurled six innings and gave up one hit, and although he walked five, only one man reached second. Since vacation, Wadsworth has worked in two intra-squad games and has given every indication that he has mastered his control problems...
...much easier to be a mature student than a mature student-leader; and so the student-leaders are faced with the great burden of living up to the Administration's expectations of them and withstanding the many temptations which the near-absence of administrative control invites. It is thus legitimate for the bitter student-leader to feel that he is his own conscience; with fellow students apathetic and administrators fearful lest they become paternalistic, he is given quite a free hand...
...fear of paternalism sometimes extends in the perverse direction of keeping hands off one group by exerting control over another. The Young Republican vote-buying of two years ago was seized upon by the Student Council as a way of making its power felt in the land, but before it could take any action, the Administration stepped in, refused to authorize the Council to take the action it wished, and took no action itself against the HYRC...
David L. Stone played a truly impressive Mendip, at times compelling, at times dynamic, always in control as the man who owed it to himself to hang. His magnetism almost steals the show; but there is competition. Marguerite Tarrant's witch also draws attention for a beauty of speech and splendor of costume. She is fascinating in her fear of death, and radiant in the night when "Nothing is what it seems to be." Despite the "insect life" surrounding them, the young love, and do so with conviction...