Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...educational system of the state of Michigan, there isone feature which bears a striking resemblance to the preparatory school system of Germany. We refer to the admission of gradautes from certain preparatory schools to the University of Michigan without examination. The university was orginally under the control of the state of Michigan and from this cause, at least in part, the extremely desirable state of affairs has arisen that the university should be supplementary to the more advanced public schools. The regulations of the university state that once each year a committee of the faculty shall visit any public high...
...differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ which seldom errs) but by complex rules, committed to memory with much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries ago, it was an ordinary circumstance to carry on a conversation in Latin, and the control which an average student had over the language was astonishing. When, for example, we remember the wonderful "knacd" the poet Addison had of reeling off good hexameter verse, a "knack" not his alone, but common to most of the then students of average ability, we may form some idea...
...have come from the same school or state, and instead of one great circle alive with interest in all matters pertaining to the college, we have a number of small cliques who think and act independently of each other. One, or possibly two of these small bodies control the class, and their opinion always prevails. This is but just, as power always must be in the hands of a few to become at all effective; but while the rest of the class concede this they do not look with favor upon the loss of the class fellowship which they expected...
...Clipper says of the Lehigh tug-of-war team at the games, that their previous work gave them courage, which did not prevail against the superior ability of the better-drilled Harvards, whose anchor, cool as an iceberg, exercised intelligent control over...
...scene which is not a pleasant subject of contemplation. An officer of the college took upon himself a police duty, which not only derogated from his dignity, but placed him for over an hour in a very awkward position. More than this, the matter which he undertook to control was only made worse by his interference; instead of one bonfire, placed where it could do no harm, four were kindled,-those in very bad blaces. The celebration which, if left to itself, would hardly have lasted long, continued half the night, and more than all, a strong feeling of antagonism...