Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questionnaire, which was sent out to Crimson undergraduates, showed less than 35 per cent of the eligible upperclassmen participating in House athletics. This contrasts with the Yale program, in which 55 per cent of the upperclassmen compete in intramural sports. The report also calls for the return of administrative control in House athletics to the H.A.A...
Next step at Harvard is for the H.A.A. to junk the farcical student control which the so-called "representative" athletic committees now fail to provide and set up some system whereby athletics can be made to serve all students, Varsity and non-varsity alike. With everyone paying ten dollars, an active voice which can be heard is only fair. One of the most obvious methods by which this can be achieved is indicated by the system of student managers, broad participation, and consequent undergraduate control which have been so successful at Yale. Only by the adoption of the Council...
Illustrating from the old Prussian bureaucracy, whose history he traced from the Constitution of Weimar in 1813, he declared that the system only worked when men of the highest calibre had control of the machinery. When the ideal of self-administration in the states and townships of the German Federation had been fairly well established, Bruening said, laws were more of a directive character than an attempt to fit every case. He said that adaptability and elasticity characterized this legislation...
Whether the Government, or for that matter any government, possesses the power to control such forces once they are set loose is open to the gravest doubts. History certainly shows cases where governmental power, even to the extent of life and death, has failed to check runaway inflation. But whether or not the United States is standing on the brink of a precipice, any control, except for direct monetary efforts, "must mean a personal government of relatively unrestrained power". Backed by the dictation of closely knit labor armies and freed from restraint by a judiciary stripped of its independence...
...there, explains the management, hangs the underlying popularity of the University as a movie house. In no other establishment is the smacking of lips so delicate or the roar of Tarzan so beastlike; and to the shadowy figure in the leges belongs all credit for the perfection of sound control...