Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...early next spring, (1886), the 45 courts then in use on Jarvis Field and Homes Field should not prove sufficient, there is space for about 12 courts on the Agassiz Museum grounds, and also space for 10 courts on the Divinity School grounds. This latter ground, however, is controlled by the Divinity Association, who are very jealous of their own rights, and will probably retain control of their grounds...
...these men, four are trying for pitcher's place-Snow, Austin, Palmer and Dickinson. They are practising constantly under the watchful eye of Mr. Winslow, but have not as yet got a good control of the ball; although some of their curves are promising, they do not seem to be able to make them effective, and hard work will be necessary to remedy this...
...Crosby has even said that temperance is more manly than total abstinence; the temperate man is the manly man, the total abstainer the coward, and the excessive user the beast. The man who can drink and hold a good deal, is sometimes regarded as a noble example of self-control. But, I tell you, drunkenness in itself depends not on the quantity, not on the quality a man can take, but on the effect. Some men can be moderate drinkers, but thousands cannot. My father was, but his son never could, and never can be. You call a man weak...
...laugh at drunkenness-very good; it is often laughable. But also, it is most horrible and terrible. How many drunkards have committed murders How many talented men have been ruined by drink! The drunkard loses all control of himself; character, love, perception, memory, all are gone, and the once man is but a brute...
...student, and a greater familiarity on the part of the students with questions and methods of government, will be of decided advantage to the college at large. These ends can be gained by the proposed conference, and they will pave the way for a scheme of harmonious faculty-student control of vexing college questions that will meet with the approval of even our friend on the Lampoon...