Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Control of irrigation by others than the United States unwise. - (a) By states. - (1) River systems extend over several states. - (2) The one nearest the head could steal all the water: Powell, 221. - (b) By individual farmers. - It would be on too small a scale to be effective except in a few places: Powell, 237. - (c) By corporations. - (1) It leaves a great class of farmers at the mercy of the water companies. - (2) It would lead to the creation of large estates and the crushing out of small holders. - (3) It would lead to popular hatred...
...High license is the best solution of the problem. - (a) Greatly reduces drunkenness. - (1) By reducing the number of saloons, makes better control possible, and increases profits of saloon keeper. - (2) Makes a license too valuable to risk loss of it by selling to drunkards. - (3) Makes it to saloon keeper's interest to prevent unlicensed selling. - (b) Takes the saloon out of politics. - (1) Where tried, it supersedes all other legislation. - (2) Thus liquor dealer's have no motive for united political action...
With this issue the Ninety-six board assumes control of the CRIMSON. It is needless for us to repeat the assurance of each new board that the change in management is the sign of no change in the general policy of the paper; that policy in the main has long been fixed beyond change. It remains for us only to alter as may be necessary the methods by which we seek to maintain in our proper sphere, the sphere of college life in general and of Harvard life in particular, the character of an efficient newspaper...
With this issue of the CRIMSON the Ninety-five editors relinquish the control of the paper to the Ninety-six board...
...Yale Corporation, writes of the Yale college discipline: "The college discipline takes account of, and trusts, the honor and manliness of the students. Instructors and students meet on a common ground of confidence and of scholarly ambition. Athletics have their place. They encourage manliness, pluck, perseverance, honor, self-control. Defeat on the field is to be borne in as manly a way as victory. Yale is taught never to dishonor itself in defeat. It is always to assume victory. It puts high a generous heroism, a magnanimous appreciation of others...