Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...large number of colleges and the opportunities for sharp practice that arise, Harvard is forced to row with a set of men against whom charges like those recently made in the Advertiser may be plausibly put forward; that the unwieldiness of the Association almost places it beyond its own control:- when these grievances, together with many others that might be mentioned, are considered, no one can doubt that Harvard has abundant reason for taking up her connection with the Association, and adopting a new system of University racing...
...WETHERBEE, Sec, and Treas.OWING to the dissatisfaction with the management of the Athletic Sports at Saratoga last year, a separate organization, to have control of such sports in future, was organized by a convention in Springfield on Saturday, under the name of "The Athletic Association of American Colleges." G. W. Green of Harvard was President of the convention, and F. Marquand of Princeton, Secretary; and ten colleges were represented, as follows: Amherst, L. G. Beck; Columbia, Randolph Hurry, James A. Renwick; Cornell, A. M. Ensign; Harvard, G. W. Green; Princeton, W. T. Kauffman, F. A. Marquand; Trinity, J. D. McKennan...
...deny the justice of the Advocate's complaint that it receives very few articles from the lower classes, we would venture to suggest that, if there is time, a few themes in the Freshman year would be a great improvement, for it is very rarely that men gain much control of their pens till the middle of the Sophomore year...
...occasion of one of her public dinners, at which John Hancock was invited to a seat with the Governors of the College; and, again, we see the same man elected Treasurer of the College in 1773. All this time republican principles and patriotic ideas were gaining the control of students as well as instructors...
...thus deserting the place of his choice? Clio drops a tear, and discreetly turns the page; certain it is, however, that circumstances over which he had no control had made it highly desirable that he should seek some faroff shore, "where censure-marks cease from troubling, and the lazy are at rest." Casting around for a place worthy to be graced by his unrivalled talent for a life of indolent luxury, he pitched upon Brazil as the country affording the maximum of physical enjoyment with the least mental strain; so, with no companion but a Portuguese conversation-book...