Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Senior Wranglers to be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the Assembly Room of the Union, the following question will be debated: "Resolved, That a constitutional amendment is advisable giving Congress control over corporations doing inter-state business." Hale's camp will support the affirmative, Hinckley's camp the negative. Beginning with the meeting tonight, refreshments will be served at the regular monthly meeting of the club...
...Senior Wranglers. Debate. Assembly Room, Harvard Union, 8 p. m. Question: "Resolved, That a Constitutional Amendment is advisable giving Congress control over corporations doing interstate business." Principal Disputants.--Affirmative: Hale's Camp.--Negative: Hinckley's Camp...
...forests of Java is wonderful. Palms and ferns grow to enormous sizes, and trees 90 feet high are common occurrences. They grow with great rapidity and by actual measurement bamboo sprouts have been known to grow to 3 feet in 24 hours. The Botanic Gardens, which are under the control of the Dutch government and occupy an area of nearly 1000 acres, have proved very useful because they allow plants to grow in their natural way where they can be studied during the whole year. The observation of hibernating plants is in this way greatly facilitated...
Under the new plan the property and control of the Society will pass to stockholders who are not connected with the present directorate and who cannot be either directors or officers, a provision that the first plan omitted. The new stockholders are of course unpledged as to the men they will nominate for the first directors. No one doubts but that they will nominate the best men in the University. Doubtless they will also give careful consideration to names that members may suggest before the list of nominations is made public. However that may be, a vote at the coming...
There is, unfortunately it must seem to every one who desires authoritative student control of the Society, temporarily a necessity for keeping artificially the number of members below the present maximum, and this might best be done probably by a slight increase in the cost of membership tickets. Such an increase would go to the clear profit of the Society; and strictly it seems no more than just if the incorporation brings all the financial improvements which are anticipated from it. But even the increase of less than a dollar, required immediately to reduce the membership by 988 would...