Word: controls
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...itself. He stayed in his part, and he never failed to make his points carry. As the sheriff in the burlesque he was even better, and his complete change of voice, method and manner, proved that his genuineness in the other role had been skill and not accident. His control of the situation was so perfect that the audience came near forgetting that the piece was a burlesque, and his exit was followed by a storm of applause. J. J. Rowe '07, as the waiter, is musically the backbone of the play, and his songs display his powerful and resonant...
...take an active and not a passive interest in the government of the country. He pointed out that the responsibility in the home, being the unit of our social life, is a phase of citizenship which cannot be ignored, and that to shirk from the responsibility of putting the control of the government into able hands is nothing short of criminal...
...negro must learn to honor manual labor, for this is merely the foundation of higher civilization. Crime is committed only by vagrants and by the ignorant. In order to better conditions in the South and to diminish racial feeling, the leaders of the blacks must gain self-control and must not become embittered, for such men lose a large percentage of their power to accomplish good. It is not by racial hatred that the great problem which confronts us today is to be solved, it is by co-operation between the two races...
...practice has been confined to the rudimentary work. The battery candidates reported a week earlier than the main squad in order to limber up the pitchers and avoid as much arm-sore-ness as possible. Nothing has been attempted with the pitchers except to teach them as much control as possible. Some of them have good speed; but the raw weather makes it impossible for them to work out their arms thoroughly and thus give an idea of what they are worth...
...complaint is sometimes heard that there are too many restrictions and regulations governing college athletics. This may be true. What is equally true is that these regulations and restrictions have not been established to fit a theory, but are the results of attempts to check or control actual abuses, actual dangers, and to meet actual emergencies and difficulties, or actual criticisms and demands from fellow institutions. These assertions could be verified by a study of athletics at Harvard during the past quarter of a century. The present body of rules has been the slow product of years of trial...