Word: controller
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chief characteristics of all these institutions are a want of a system of control, inattention on the part of the students, and incompetence on that of the professors. Although, besides these schools in the capital, there are Rushdiyes and even Idadiyes in many of the large country towns there are no schools of any kind in the country villages where the three R's are regarded as wholly superfluous luxuries. The mathematical and historical teaching is very deficient, and the whole system of instruction needs much improvement. There is a story told that a commissioner sent to inspect...
...that a great dell of the trouble about the "rough game" is to be found. This change will not only do await with any leniency in executing the rules, such as a foot-ball player in sympathy with the "rough game" might naturally feel, but will also put the control of the games into the hands of certain ones, who while interested in the game, are yet entirely removed from any feeling of partiality. The whole tenor of the changes seems to be quite in harmony with the views that the committee on athletics have expressed. If the rules...
...second forensic will be due on Thursday, Jan 10, from 2 to 3.30 P. M., in Sever 3. Subjects: 1. Is it advisable, on economic grounds, to foster the greatest possible immigration of foreigners? 2. Would it be advisable for the United States government to own and control all telegraphic lines? 3. Did any good ever come from forcing a man to act contrary to his convictions? 4. Has the constitution of the earth's atmosphere been subjected to considerable changes since the beginning of organic matter? 5. Compare George Eliot with George Sand...
...here was a great advance, for about a century previous we read that a certain mother gave instructions to her son's tutor to "trewly belassch him," adding, "so did the last maystr and the best that he ever had." Another peculiarity, at least to Americans, is the supreme control a man's tutor had over him. He bought his clothes, gave him his very scanty allowance of pocket money, and attended to all his financial transactions, as well as to his moral training. Life at a university was exceedingly cheap. We instance a nobleman's son whose yearly allowance...
...substance that he does not desire to have the action of the committee misunderstood. The changes insisted upon were meant absolutely to do away with the objectionable features. Therefore the referee must be not only opposed to the game as played at present, but he must have absolute control of it, and the punishment must operate against the whole team, to diminish its score, if need be, or it would not be efficacious. The action of the committee in this one case is not intended to affect any future action which the committee may desire to take; it applies only...