Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fifty of these institutions; Eolland, Spain, Russia, and Greece, about twenty five, while Great Britain contains about a dozen. The old universities of France were swept away by the Revolution, but a new system of education has since sprung up, the centre of which, established at Paris, has direct control over all the educational matters of the country. Of the Plussial universities, those of Prague and Heldeioerg, founded in the fifteenth century, are the oldest. The educational system of Germany ranks among the very best, and is admirably adapted for the advancement of science and philosophy. England has four noted...
...rivalry has been promoted, and the rules of play which prior to the formation of the Association were arbitrary and ill defined, have been taken hold of with a strong hand, altered, improved and well-defined. The Association is known as the Ontario Rugby Union, and is under the control of an executive committee. It embraces the principal Rugby clubs of the province. Prominent among these are the city clubs of Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa and Kingston, and the college clubs of Toronto, Trinity, and the Kingston Universities. By the usual methods of rounds of tie matches, the championship...
...inmates is to be maintained; and thus the communication of radical ideas is to be cut short. A curious part of the regulation is that, while these police overseers are to be maintained out of the Universities' funds, they are not to be at all under the control of the university authorities. The fact is that, in Russia, the faculty of a college needs to be under the espionage of the police quite as much as the students...
...usual foot ball game on the polo ground on thanksgiving day of this year. The authorities of the college are of the opinion that manly sports should not be discouraged but rather encouraged, as fitted to promote the health of students. To give agility of frame and self control, and by no means injurious to morals...
Those who urge the dangerousness of the game should remember, however, that the benefits of foot ball are by no means merely physical. The game developes character, develops it much more than any other game we have. It makes a man of you, teaches you fearlessness, quick thinking, self-control (or should, when rightly played). subordination. The game may be perverted. and the character it develops be bad character, as we see in the case of one, at least, of the colleges; but that may be said of everything that affects character at all. And because anything that helps...