Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese of the Old School understood, sympathized. They were glad that at least one young man had the spunk to consider himself insulted by the frequent radical utterances of notorious Senji Yamamoto, loud-mouthed Farmer-Labor member of the Imperial Diet. ex-Canadian dishwasher, publisher of The Japanese Birth Control Review...
...student press. The discrimination of editors in charge of these enterprises should be sufficient check on so-called "nasty jokes". Violations of propriety such as recently reported at Tech tend to lower the good standing of student publications, and to bring forth agitation in some quarters for strong faculty control of the press. Thus the matter of an ill attempt at wit may easily result in a complete gagging of freedom and prevent the desirable open expression of opinion which is at present such a valuable part of college journalism...
...previous results of attempts to control women do not promise much success to this project. The traditional last word of Xantippe and the saline perversity of the wife of Lot show that restrictions are not particularly adaptable to them. The objection of the associate editor of the college newspaper that co-eds "waylay and harass the male students", and, "destroy the studious and scholarly atmosphere of the college," are just as vain as the same argument that resulted in Socrates taking up his abode in the public square. At Detroit fifty girls are opposed to two thousand men, but Cleopatra...
...sure, some significance in his statement that more men are being trained for certain professions than can be absorbed by them without a consequent lowering of the standards of remuneration. Recognition of this condition is necessary to prevent serious loss, but Mr. Clark's bureaucratic demands for state control of the number of professional students are too manifestly contrary to the American spirit of educational freedom for any real consideration...
Commander Evangeline seemed reconciled to the new General, Commander Edward John Higgins, until just before she boarded her steamer. Then she abruptly announced: "The U. S. branch of the Salvation Army is not satisfied with the governmental reforms promised by the new General. Absolute control over territorial commands now exercised by international headquarters in London is cause of the greatest resentment on the part of Americans. The American branch wants to lessen that control and decentralize the Government...