Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...material made up for high rates. The enforcement of this clause of necessity revolutionizes many of these arrangements and causes much hardship to shippers. III. - The prohibition of pools is inexpedient, as the experience of all other countries has shown. Even Germany, where there is so much government control over railroads, has found it impossible to prohibit pools and equalize rates at the same time. Whereas Germany employs a force of 8000 men to manage railroad matters, our bill intends that five commissioners should do all the work over a larger area. They may take such aids as a yearly...
...whole, the crew fail to control themselves. They rush down on the recover and fail to get their weight right on. With hardly an exception the men settle badly at the finish...
Second, let the faculties of colleges abandon the idea of control altogether, confining themselves entirely to the scholarship of students and making no note whatever of conduct. Throw students entirely upon their own responsibility...
...contest is going on among the Catholic clergy of Baltimore and Washington as to which of the priestly orders shall have control of the new Catholic university...
...hear much of the Harvard indifference; it could hardly be that no such carelessness should exist among us, for before a man gets the control of any department of interest - athletics, literature or anything else - a large fraction of his college life has passed. Hence, a quick succession of captains in the crews and nines, of editors-in-chief in the papers, and so there can be no fixed policy in the conduct of athletics or anything else. One man builds his plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts...