Word: controls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...keep the temper under adverse circumstances; rowing, and canoeing, to strengthen the upper part of the thorax and chest, are useful. The benefit to be derived from regular practice in a gymnasium, by which the mind and nerve-centres are so trained that they have a certain amount of control over the body, and while the muscles may give out, this mental power when once obtained by physical training will never be lost, is of the greatest account...
...statements in approval of the past conduct of the nine, as unwise in tending to repress college spirit, and, by the substitute offered, class games, to revive class spirit, now nearly extinct, and as unwarrantable in view of the fact that the "new system" at Amherst transfers the control of the students' disposition of time, money and energy from the faculty to the students themselves. The resolutions conclude with a request to the faculty not to persist in a course that will surely result in a diminution of the students' affection for their Alma Mater and respect for its faculty...
...Harvard square cars was making its inward trip from Cambridge to Boston, Wednesday evening, an exciting scene occurred at the Boston & Albany Railroad crossing, Cambridgeport. The car, which was crowded with passengers, was not stopped in accordance with the law, and suddenly the horses got beyond the control of the driver, and made a dash forward. As a locomotive was approaching under a fair rate of speed, the gates, one on each side of the track, were closed across the street, but the horses dashed through the gate on the Cambridge side, tearing it from the hinges, and dragging...
...shown how the money market thus rested almost entirely in the control of one man, the minister of finance, a fact which must necessarily condemn the system, aside from the evils which arise in the money market on account of this. As a remedy, Dr. Laughlin would have the deposit of specie, obtained by the government from its customs duties, deposited with the New York banks on the security of the government bonds. That the banks would even be willing to pay a small interest for the privilege was clearly demonstrated. As to the security after the payment...
...believed in New York that the Western Union and Mutual Union Telegraph companies have settled their differences, and that the former has obtained control of the latter...