Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That the United States have a right to the exclusive control of the seal fisheries in Behring...
...editors of last year's Harvard Portfolio will continue the publication this year. They intend to get the annual firmly established as a regular Harvard publication, before relinquishing its control. The collection of photographs this year will be larger than ever before, and an effort will be made to have the book more attractive in every way so as to be of general interest to all under-classmen as well as to the members of the graduating class...
...authorities who have control of the Cary building, whoever they are, giving the university football team a vast amount of unnecessary trouble. The building itself is all than can be desired, everything that a complete knowledge of the wants of an athletic team can propose has been put into it, and it is a model of its kind. When it was finished it was accepted, we understand, in the regular prescribed way by the corporation, but, strange to say, all authority over thecontrol of the building seems to have gone to the winds. It is impossible to find...
...Dallinger, '93, opened the affirmative side of the resolution that "the action of the majority in the present House of Representatives merits the endorsement of the country." From 1860 to 1888 the Republican party, he said, had almost absolute control of all branches of government. They were elected by an open suppression of the Republican vote, and while in power did practically nothing. The 51st Congress met in 1888 with the resolution of the Democrats that they would not pass a bill favored by the Republicans. Only by the energy of Speaker Reed have they accomplished what they...
...theme of R. L. O'Brian's rejoinder was the consideration of the Republicnn party for their party first, and the country second. The motive of the Federal election bill was to control the only perpetual suppression. The motive of the Pension bill was to control the soldiers' vote. No matter what is sacrificed, the party comes first, the country second...