Word: controls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first substitute, pulls a ragged and uneven stroke. He does not sit up well to his work, but sags and lets his stomach cave in. He rows hard but does not utilize his strength well. Faulkner rows with a bent back and does not keep his shoulders under control, letting them come round his ears and then slump back. He rows fairly smoothly but without enough power. Bowen rows very stiffly. His back seems especially stiff, and none of his motions are free enough...
...barrel, and brandy and water in pails, which were placed at the foot of the tree, and were steadily replenished all the afternoon, mugs ad libitum being provided for all comers. There were singing, dancing, speaking intermingled with unlimited drinking. Not the slightest attempt was made to control or repress this. It was simply a brutal, howling orgies. There was little attempt at fun, no kind of system or traditional order, nothing but steady drinking and the resulting drunkenness...
...Princetonian vigorously advocates the scheme of Athletic Consolidation, whereby all the organizations may be under one financial control...
...peculiarly an elective institution. Study at a university is usually subsequent to study at colleges. It must be conceded, moreover, that the purpose of the university is not disciplinary. "It must be assumed," the writer of the article says, "that in the college the student has acquired self-control and self-determination, and in the university must be left free to elect whatever he chooses, and take the responsibility. If, now, the college be such only in name; if it be in reality a university; if its work be special and elective - election determined by students' judgment - certainly no such...
...action of the heart is much reduced in frequency, or brought to a pause. This condition is called Syncope. This state may be produced by any violent shock to the nervous system. A large proportion of diseases of the heart depend upon circumstances over which we have no control. In 177 cases of consumption, examined in the Brompton Consumptive Hospital, the heart was found smaller than it should be, in more than one half of the cases. As the heart not only sends the blood through the body, but also receives its nourishment from it, when the food supply...