Word: controls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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. - [Academia...
...result [of ceasing to attempt this] will be greater care in the selection of boys for college education. It will cease to be a matter of course to send boys to college whenever the father can afford it. Boys who have no strong love of study, and whose self-control is defective, will not be sent there...
Should learn to govern and control...
When the exhibitors had again secured control of their emotions, the Prosaical Exhibitor read the following...
...every man who is in any way fit for the University, and who is not prevented from rowing by some insuperable obstacle, to begin training at once and thus to aid our captain in the formation of his eight. If we allow our much-talked of indifference to control us this year, if we do not show in rowing a very decided energy, we shall suffer a more disgraceful defeat than ever before. To save us from this let all rowing men, no matter of what class they may be, come forward and by their earnest efforts try to make...