Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Engine No. 1 was the first to get to work, and was able to supply enough water without further assistance from the other engines. Inspired by the applause of hand-clapping of students and denizens of Cambridge, the firemen of Engine No. 1 soon had the flames under their control, and the fire was extinguished...
...allowed to work out the plan by which the necessary work is to be accomplished. The difficulties of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion are recognized, and the students will be expected to surmount the difficulties and perfect a scheme by which the desired results of successful student control of the yard may be attained. But as the year is now so far advanced, it is thought that whatever action is taken, ought to be taken at once. It is suggested that the Conference Committee upon its own responsibility appoint a date for a new election...
...committee has resigned, and the control of the yard is now in the hands of the students as a body. Let the true manliness and sober good-judgment of the undergraduates guide the celebrations of the future. We must feel the weight of the trust that is given to us by the faculty...
...maintenance of order in the college yard do believe that, from the smallness of the vote cast, they do not represent the general feeling of the college, and also that the smallness of the vote indicates an unwillingness on the part of the students to undertake the control of the yard, notwithstanding the vote of the mass-meeting, Resolved: that the committee do hereto unanimously resign their office...
...would prove competent to quell any undue disturbance without resorting to violent measures. The college does not need men distinguished for their size and weight, who could act as yard policemen in a case of necessity, but rather quiet, earnest men, who, by their cool, common sense, can control their excited fellows, and prevent any extravagant demonstrations. As to the Conference Committee, it should be remembered that it is a legislative body, elected for the purpose of creating a better understanding between the faculty and the students. The Yard Committee will be an executive body, whose duty it will...