Word: controls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Anderson, president of the Chicago University, has assumed control of the college organ, known as the Volante...
...Transcript contains a sharp editorial criticism on the recent letter in the Nation on religious discipline at Harvard. In concluding it proposes an astonishing solution of the question, viz : "A leading churchman of this city favors the division of Harvard University into separate colleges, each religious denomination to have control of its own. He believes that this will some time take place...
...brought against athletics from outside was not by the scholarly men, but by the athletic men, who realize that they had spent too much time in athletics while in college. He himself had anticipated the present general discussion three years ago. The athletic committee of the faculty assume to control the whole athletic interests of the college. Moreover, the faculty have recognized athletics as an important factor in a college training. The faculty committee were selected on account of special interest in the subject on the part of each one of them...
...seen the distinction between graduate and undergraduate courses abolished. Efforts of the corporation to raise the standard of the degree of A. M. are noted. Referring to commencement disturbances, the president says: "The good sense of the great majority of the class just graduated does not prove effectual to control the unthinking turbulence of a small minority, and, since the principal actors are bachelors of arts, the ordinary methods of college discipline as administered by the faculty are inapplicable. Preferring academic methods to any others, the corporation of overseers have agreed that they hold themselves at liberty to revoke...
...Arnold arboretum passed from the control of the trustees of Harvard College into the custody of Boston, Dec. 30th. The arboretum will be made a leading attraction of the new system of public parks. Boston has purchased Wood's Island, East Boston, over twenty acres in area, for a public park for $50,000. The plan contemplates a park-way one hundred feet wide from Bennington street to the park...