Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitter towards those who are controlling the policy of Harvard at present. And I want them to know that those who came to Harvard because they love Art and the Drama were struck a painful and shameful blow when the fact was made known Tuesday that Professor Baker, representing creative Art at Harvard has been forced to resign: forced to resign because the liberalism of Harvard was not great enough to permit originality to flourish forced to resign because of the practical and narrow vision of those who control our universities...
...appointment of Mr. Pennypacker as Chairman of the Athletic Committee is welcome news. No member of the staff in University Hall has the interests of athletics more at heart than he. This sympathy fits him especially for the chairmanship of the committee which exercises control over all the important matters arising in athletic policy and administration...
President Coolidge suggested creating a Cabinet Minister to supervise national education. Such a minister will be valueless if he becomes nothing more than head of a motley assortment of non-related departments, with inadequate control over education, as the proposed government reorganization bill would make him. He must have full powers to set standards, and supervise their maintenance. Only by vesting him with these prerogatives can there grow up a national system of education, complete in all the stages of progression from kindergarten to university...
...could hope to dominate the educational system of the United States, the separation between Church and State has become so traditional in the United States that it seems certain to remain. Even Catholics cannot be so dead to the facts as to hope that one religious denomination can ever control the liberal universities and the schools of the country...
...need act as a dampener of open and liberal discussion of all issues especially when that board is composed of men who are likely to have opinions of their own. It is still less evident that the ability to limit a discussion would carry with it the ability to control the votes of the silenced members. The suspicion arises that Mr. Chapman may be tilting against a very elusive wind-mill...