Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...United States senators: "When this committee is formed I hope that the committee will go at this question of the Senate employees with reference to a desire only to discharte honestly the obligation which the Senate as a body owes to the country in regard to that control which it asserts concerning the expenditures of public money with reference to matters which are pertinent, either to the convenience of Senators or the despatch of public business in which the Senate is concerned...
...others. Adam Smith would give government the care of the shools, religion, and certain trade monopolies. Mill would have the degree of government interference depend on history, social condition and character of people; general aim should be at non interference. Mr. Mill is about right. Whether a state shall control a farm, a railroad, or an industry, is to be decided by the character, moral, social and political...
...cannot control their legitimate action as jurymen...
...president, by one of the members, or by any student or body of students, and it is then their duty to investigate the case with reasonable promptness, obtaining their information by whatever honorable means may appear most desirable. They may consult with the president, but he cannot control their action. Having formed an opinion, they decide upon a verdict of fact, which must be agreed to by a majority, and which state the grade of the offense, together with such aggravating or extenuating circumstances as have been allowed to qualify this verdict...
...jurisdiction of the senate is by no means sharply defined as yet. Broadly stated, however, in substantially President Seelye's words, the faculty have to do, or should have to do, simply with the literary life of the college; while to the students, through the senate, is left the control of all matters in general, other than literary, with which the undergraduates have to deal directly. Both in theory and by precedent athletic questions fall to the province of the senate. This, indeed, is perhaps the only precedent which has been at all firmly established thus far. Cases of expulsion...