Word: controls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard is not only a great centre of polite learning, it is also a powerful factor in the civil life of the nation. Students from all quarters of the country throng its halls. Many of these youth will yet occupy public positions and control the political action of their States. The lessons which they will learn in Cambridge and Boston will never be forgotten. Respect for the dignity of labor, reverence for law, the value of the varied industries and thrifty economics which amass the means that philanthropy so grandly uses are nowhere better exemplified, and the salutary and harmonizing...
...property)? Let those who hold the courts now select the hours that suit them best for using them, and let the remaining hours be taken by those who sign for them, and pay a fee towards the expenses of their care. But first the Tennis Association should take absolute control of all the courts, number them, keep them marked and rolled, and have a book in which the number of the courts are entered, with the names of those who use them, and the hours they are used, clearly stated. All who use the courts should pay a moderate...
...students a large part of the management of their organizations, and is on this ground open to the greatest objections. Some such suggestion as that of the Advocate might be adopted, but nothing should be done that would make the students feel that they had not the control of their own institutions...
...intervals of mental labor. "I have never smoked," Matthew Arnold writes, "and have always drunk wine - chiefly claret. As to the use of wine, I can only speak for myself. Of course, there is the danger of excess; but a healthy nature and the power of self-control being pre-supposed, one can hardly do better, I should think, than 'follow nature' as to what one drinks and its times and quantity. I suppose most young people could do as much without wine as with it. Real brain work of itself, I think, upsets the worker and makes him bilious...
...attention when 19 years of age, while tramping through the Maine woods. The lumbermen refused to allow any of their number to take any liquor of any kind with them into the woods. It was a measure of self preservation. In the log drives the most perfect control of every faculty was necessary, and the lumbermen would not permit themselves to be at the mercy of any one man who might wish to indulge himself. He was obliged to sacrifice his own pleasure to the safety of the majority. All employers believe in shutting off their workmen from drinking. They...