Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clipping from The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, appearing in an adjoining column, declares as one with the privilege of knowledge that opposition to the House Plan is "inconsiderable", and is bound to decrease rapidly. This optimism might pass unnoticed, a species of whistling to keep the courage up in the face of the facts, if its zeal did not plunge into a series of generalities as unwarranted as they are sweeping...
...theatrical activity at Harvard is to keep the pace set in other institutions some consistent encouragement must be given to an effort to work in the theatre from the ground up. Smooth renderings of the plays of other men, however much they may foster neglected art, cannot replace one benefits had when students roll us their sleeves and do the entire job themselves. Unless undergraduate drama at Harvard is to prove a sterile toying with colored lights and elaborate stage sets some permanent avenue must be opened for those who would do more than follow through the trappings...
...line and falling on the ball. Captain J. E. Barrett '30, J. N. Trainer '31 and J. Potter were the only 'H' linemen who were present yesterday. Some of the members of the forward wall are expected out today while the interference of another sport will keep several men from participating at all. B. H. Ticknor '31 is playing baseball while R. H. O'Connell '30 is out for track. S. C. Burns '30 has just finished playing basketball but he is expected out in a few days...
Soon dissension developed. The partners could not agree on sales-methods. They began to build stationary engines as a kind of side line to keep themselves in business until their automobile was perfected. While they were arguing, others were acting. Ford had a car at $850. There was a Cadillac at $750 and an Oldsmobile at $650. But the Buick was a good car. It won competitive tests. Trade papers praised it. At last orders began to come in. Sales were rising; profits were in sight. But production costs increased also, made necessary another reorganization, another influx of capital...
...would be fate, and not cowardly suicide. Perched perilously on a vertical boulder of ice, exhausted, he is on the verge of loosening hand and toe grip when he hears a call of distress from above. In such a crisis a Montague man can do only one thing-keep on climbing...