Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dean Shaler, in introducing Professor Moore, spoke of the self-control which he always derived from attending the morning service in Appleton Chapel. Professor Moore enlarged upon this idea, telling how a man in the midst of life needs a lantern to give him his bearings. Some of us, he said, are here by the sacrifices of our parents; all of us are sent to College with great expectations from father or mother. Now is the chance by living up to these paternal ambitions to change our relation to father or mother from that of son to that of companion...
...crew races with Yale. Our football record is little better, and the baseball system is deteriorating. Every Freshman can materially help the athletic condition in the University by taking an interest in College sports. Athletics are a splendid mental discipline. Besides this they are physical training, and increase self-control...
...most difficult position to fill satisfactorily will undoubtedly be that of pitcher. The most likely candidates are A. L. Castle '06, H. A. Taylor '07, S. Hendricks 1L. and C. E. Lincoln '08. Castle played in several important games this season and showed good control, but has not sufficient speed. Taylor has fair speed, but shows lack of experience. Hendricks, who was ineligible this year, has done consistent work in pitching to the men for batting practice, and Lincoln has pitched a good game on the Freshman nine throughout the season...
...Cambridge equipped and managed in such a way, that the standard of dormitory living and the rentals shall not greatly vary in any of the buildings. This would have to be done either through sole ownership of all dormitories by the Corporation, or through some other mode of control, but preferably through ownership. It would necessitate a great financial outlay and a large special endowment for the Corporation to carry out the work of re-organization, to bring its present dormitories up to a reasonable standard of modern comfort, and then to be enabled to rent at reasonable rates...
...Jane Sever was at every situation and incident delightfully expressive, and especially so in the fourth act, where she proved an adequate foil to Marlowe's intensity. Miss Emma C. Noyes as "Her Ladyship" looked the part to perfection, and gave it the required degree of snap and self-control, and Mrs. Hutchinson took full advantage of a short part in "Dame Benet...