Word: controls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Record board for the ensuing year: Charles Halsey, '83; Francis Johnson Phelps, '83; Sherman Day Thatcher, '83; George Conkling Jennings, '83, (Fin.); Henry Curtis Nutt, Jr., '83 S.; Clinton Ross, '84; Charles Ansel Watrous, '84; Davenport Galbraith, '84 S.; Paul Irving Welles, '85. The new board will assume control of the paper after the next issue...
...same, and it shall be its duty to regulate the conduct of the business of the society; to prescribe the methods of keeping its accounts and auditing them, and to appoint, remove and fix the pay of the superintendent and his assistants, and in general to supervise and control the operations of the society, and to pass and publish suitable rules defining its methods...
...large fire is now raging in Haverhill; Mass. It has been burning since midnight, and is beyond the control of the firemen. Engines have been sent from Boston. Telegraph and telephone communication have been broken down. Flames were plainly visible from Boston...
...pressing need of financial support for Kenyon College. He demonstrated by facts and figures that no college of any celebrity was self-sustaining. The list included Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth and many others that he named. He said that all of the institutions were practically under the control of some religious denomination-Harvard under the Unitarians, Yale the Congregationalists, Princeton under the Presbyterians, and so on to the end of the list. Colleges supported by state instead of church were not successful. He explained to his hearers why they and others should combine in assisting Kenyon...
...students' government at the Illinois Industrial, Champaign, Ill., is a novelty. The members of three governmental departments, executive, judicial and legislative, are chosen by the students. The actions of the students are entirely subject to the control of this government. A paid marshal is employed, invested with the power to arrest; two justices with the power to try, and two attorneys with the power to prosecute. A senate, composed of twenty-one members enacts the necessary laws. Such an institution creates an air of independence, a feeling of responsibility, and serves as an excellent school...