Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Library by purchase or gift, and shall be responsible for their preservation in good order. The librarian may receive a salary which shall be fixed by the Trustees. The Committee shall determine what books are to be bought and what journals shall be subscribed for, and shall also have control over the pictures, statues, trophies and bric-a-brac in the Union. Four members shall constitute a quorum...
...been reached in the completion of the new Dining Halls, which were opened immediately after the Christmas holidays. The Halls accommodate six Freshman clubs. Each club has its individual dining and lounging room, and continues its private organization, but all are now for the first time collectively under the control of University management. A standing committee of eleven undergraduates, consisting of seven Seniors and four Juniors, has entire charge of an arrangements. Although but 180 men are now cared for, it is planned to increase the accommodations, so that next year the entire Freshman class may have a common eating...
...first speech of the evening J. W. Plaisted, of the affirmative, outlined the importance of having good governments in our cities. He explained the corrupt abuses, and contrasted them with the excellent municipal control in foreign cities. For the negative A. B. Church opened the debate. He pointed out that the good governments of European cities were not the result of the property qualification but of other conditions; namely, continuity of executive expert heads of departments and rigid anti-corruption measures A. N. Holcombe continued the argument for the affirmative and made specific suggestions for the improvement of the evils...
...characters of college football players, for they are often victims of a vicious system which they feel forced to support. The fact remains that the game is responsible for a condition which fails to foster manly virtues, and which is a detriment to the development of honor and self-control...
...strong. In administration nearly all are patterned after the governing board of Harvard College, originally created by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay in 1642. The tendency of recent legislation is to bring the governing bodies of the institutions to a common plane, in which the amount of political control is being steadily diminished, religious denominations are losing their influence, and wherein the graduates of the several institutions are coming into possession of power over them. He said that an American faculty almost always feels a strong sense of responsibility for the conduct of their students and gives much thought...