Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...increasing. The prizes of considerable moment, as in most professions, are not many in number. The requirements are very various, and, as a rule, it may be stated that no knowledge comes amiss to a librarian. The preferable knowledge depends wholly upon the kind of library he is to control and the sort of people to whom he is to minister. In general terms, I should say that in fitting one's self for work in a miscellaneous library the best thing to be proficient in is literary history and general bibliography. As to languages, one need hardly hope...
...Cambridge railroad has passed into the control of the West End Street Railway Company...
...alone to the State and does not concern the church. If the parochial school system were adopted, the influence of the Catholic clergy would be exerted in compelling men to send their children to the parochial schools instead of public ones, against their will. The Catholic church seeks to control the State, and there is no reason why a general tax on the people should be appropriated to promulgate a special faith...
Resolved, that the telegraph system in the United States should be under government control...
...gymnasium. It is the way some men have who, either forgetting to bring their own towels with them, take those belonging others; or who mistake their own property for somebody else's which closely resembles it. These evils are small in themselves, but by a little more self-control on the one hand, or more care on the other, these disagreeable consequences may be easily avoided...