Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following men have been elected to the Art Club from '89: Codman, Goodwin, Hathaway, Kimball, Mackay, Trafford; from '90: Bradlee, Curtis, Lockwood, K. Magoun, Slocum. The following were elected honorary members from '88: Adams, Balch, Crocker, Holden, and Workum, The officers and members of '88, on retiring from the control of the club, presented the members from '89 with a handsome and valuable portfolio of photographs...
...dangerous and brutalizing of all sports. It is true that men are occasionally injured seriously on the football field; but for that reason are we to cultivate effeminate dispositions and weak bodies? We hold that the game of football is a manly, invigorating, and ennobling sport. It teaches self-control, coolness at critical moments, quickness of motion, and gives a man that pluck and grit under difficulties that must always be of service in after life. The assertion is made that those who are training for some athletic team are "entitled to the preference in the gymnasium and elsewhere...
...abolition of all intercollegiate contests save with Yale or other colleges within New England. Whether this would be a wise measure or not, it is difficult to decide at the present moment. It is certainly taking a fairer, more impartial view of the case. We believe in a discreet control of athletics at Harvard; like everything else, they should be conducted with moderation. But abolition is not the proper remedy, and never will be, as long as manly, healthy Americans are gathered in a great university like this. If such treatment is tried, and as long as it is tried...
Voted, That the existing committee on athletics should be increased from five to seven by adding thereto one members of the faculty and one undergraduate, and that this committee should be given the entire supervision and control of all athletic exercises within the precincts of the university, subject to the authority of the faculty...
...Walcott dissents from these opinions, and does not believe that intercollegiate contests are any worse than those within the precincts of the college would be. The best remedy for abuse of athletics is not prohibition, but intelligent control of intercollegiate contests. He recommended, however, that formal contests be limited to Yale, that only 'Varsity teams take part in them, and that they shall take place only in New England...