Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...report his engine did not stall as was stated at first. After having reached a height of about 3,000 feet he undertook to spiral towards the ground. When a few hundred feet from earth he should have righted the machine and planed down, but either because he lost control of the machine, or became dizzy or ill, he failed to do so and plunged to the ground at a speed of an hundred miles an hour. Mr. Meeker has received the decoration which his son received at the time of his first promotion...
...call attention to the resignation of Professor Beard of Columbia because he believes that university to be "under the control of a small and active group of trustees who have no standing in the world of education, who are reactionary and visionless in politics, narrow and medieval in religion"? No more inspiring act in the struggle of intellect against political control has taken place in the last few years. The vociferous martyrdom of Dr. Scott Nearing in the cause of "acadamic freedom," coupled with its demands for three-cent fares in these times of rising operating costs and his recent...
...board of athletic control meets on Friday and it will be decided then whether Princeton will participate in contests with other colleges. With the present understanding that there will be no University contests, a series of interclass games is being arranged...
...some extent take the place of the celebration in focusing the attention of the alumni on the work of great law schools and their peculiar value at periods like the present in the history of popular government. The permanent maintenance of civil liberty depends upon the ultimate control through civil institutions of the belligerent tendencies in human nature, whether of a domestic or international character, and this requires the training and scattering through the community of the most highly trained minds that the country can produce. The training of such minds has been the great contribution, not only...
...same unleashed wild prophecies lead to hysteria. Our people are easily stirred. Such forebodings may bring on panic in which men lose control of themselves in a blind fear of the incomprehensible. There has been not so much irrational talk in Germany about starvation as in America, although here even our very poor have enough to eat, from the present German standard...