Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boat club, are not and have not been managed with sufficient economy and care. The general opinion seems to be not that the management is needlessly or wilfully extravagant, but that the want of economy arises from the careless way in which expenses are incurred and accounts kept. The manager and captain are almost omnipotent in financial arrangements, and the mass of contributors have no opportunity whatever of passing judgment on the measures taken. At the end of the year accounts are audited by a committee and found to be all right. If the expenses have seemed too large...
...kind of activity which is so requisite in matters of finance. The business of the treasurers of the boat club has become a routine which is vicious on account of its want of susceptibility to new methods. If a thorough overhauling of the manner in which the accounts are kept, and the monies expended should take place, new life and better financiering would undoubtedly follow...
...Fifteen years ago Prof. Hill came to Harvard. From that time he has been working to carry out his plan of more thorough instruction in English. Meeting opposition on every side, in the preparatory schools, as well as among the students and in the faculty, he kept on. In spite of apathy or difference of opinion among his associates he still worked for his department. Everywhere he went he met the statement, 'I write well enough, and I was never taught English.' This hostility, or at best indifference, had to be overcome. Finally he drew to himself the young...
...begun, I congratulate myself that this is my last year at college. One recalls with regret the days when the policing of the yard was under the supervision of the class of '85, when although the mucker was not excluded from the yard, rough element was suppressed and kept quiet...
...throughout. It is good in plot and workmanship, and in the portrayal and conception of character; it is natural and lifelike, and it is interesting. It is all this not now and then merely, but continually, and with an even, level temper which looks as if the writer had kept carefully within the limits of what was positively attainable. One gets an idea, that is to say, that the next novel one may have the good fortune to receive from the same hand will be even better than this...