Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first showed that the evils which civil service reform aimed to eradicate were no new thing, but the logical outcome of the world's progress. Thirteen years ago the first law was passed in relation to the reform movement. It sought to remove the higher offices from the control of the party spoilsmen. Since that time the idea has by degrees obtained a firmer footing, until today we have 55,000 positions open to men by competition. The speaker traced the reform in its various phases up to the present time, showing the great widening in the reform field...
...interesting article entitled "Faculty Control of Athletics at the English Universities" appears in the March number of Outing. The article is written by J. W. Laing and W. W. Bolton, the former in his university days was president of the Oxford Athletic Club and the latter was president of the Cambridge Athletic Club. "Faculty control," the article in the Outing says, "exists in no less degree in the old than in the new world, but the nature of it differs very widely. In the new it is official, in the old it is entirely moral...
...have been made with perfect justice, but today it is too sweeping an assertion to be perfectly true, though it still holds good with regard to several of the larger universities. At Harvard there is undoubtedly still a faculty supervision of athletics but it is quite distinct from official control. The active government of athletics at this University is in the hands of the Athletic Committee, of which three out of nine members are also members of the Faculty. This committee has for several years had complete charge of the athletic interests here, but this can certainly not be called...
...many reasons this plan of governing athletics by a committee appointed for the purpose seems a wiser one than that which gives the entire control to the captains of the different teams, which is the system adopted at the English universities. The more obvious advantages of the former arrangement are familiar enough to Harvard students. In the first place the athletic policy of the University is consistent in its various branches, and the different teams are governed by the same general rules. Then much trouble is avoided by having one source of authority instead of many. Finally, experience has proved...
...pitcher the man with the best reputation as an all-round ball player is undoubtedly Haughton '99, who last year pitched for Groton, but formerly played first base. He is a man with a good physique, is a fair hitter, and pitches with considerable speed, but has no control...