Word: controls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certainly does not compare favorably. It is illiberal and expensive. The English university is not national property in the true sense. Being under the control of the church of England it is necessarily sectarian in its character, and does not by any means heed public sentiment at all times. On the other hand the German university is liberal to the greatest extent, meets the intellectual wants of the people and is less expensive...
...goal, however, by the same Yale umpire who had made the former decision. Soon another goal was made by a swipe from Spencer. At this point there were only thirteen minutes left for Harvard to tie the game. As soon as the ball was drawn off, Harvard kept control of the ball until Noyes passed the ball to Nichols, who threw a fine goal from forty feet off. Time, two minutes. Strange to say, this goal was counted. Although Harvard played a wonderfully good game for the next ten minutes, no goals were secured, and Yale was declared the winner...
...Would you favor granting a petition that church attendance on Sunday be left (a) purely voluntary, or (b) subject to parental control...
...Sunday, it seems to me that the same principle would govern my action. Whatever influence in religious matters parents would seek to exercise over children after the latter have left the paternal roof should, in my opinion, be by precept and example only; certainly by no further attempt at control...
...exact place of any, even the best parent. So, too, at Harvard the theory of what may be called "mechanical repression," such as prevails at military and naval schools, is not maintained. The student, without the pressure of a system of rigid rules, is taught self-respect and self-control. There is more freedom than there was twenty years ago, and the result is there is better order. So also the relation between teacher and student is of a far different character from what it once was. The influence which the young men exerted on each other is far better...