Word: maintain
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...there is a charm about the irregularity of positions which is in great contrast to the machine-like regularity of the base-ball field. At all events, the improvement in lacrosse among the colleges is gratifying, especially as there is every prospect that Harvard will be able to maintain her position of last year...
...editors of the Lampoon, by their rather startling methods of replying to our criticism of April 22, show that they have chosen to find a feeling of ill-will and even bitterness in an editorial which we wrote in perfect good will and friendliness. But our criticism, we still maintain, was well-founded. We have frequently heard the same criticism made in the college at large, and at the time of our writing knew well that we were by no means alone in our position. And simply because we wrote with both sincerity and good will, we have...
...must be put down and exterminated by the public and social opinion of undergraduates as men and gentlemen, determined to maintain free of spot or blemish their own honor and that of their "alma mater...
...Charles has at last made it possible for the crews to get afloat once more, we hope that the undergraduates may make it their habit to drop in at the boat-house on pleasant afternoons, and by their presence encourage the men who are working so faithfully to maintain the supremacy of the crimson upon the water. While the crews have been engaged in their winter work in the gymnasium, it has been an easy matter to drop in and take a glance into the rowing room, but now that an inspection of the crews involves the extra trouble...
...such a club finds room to breathe. The hurry and rush of life in this case has not proved dominant. A humane and gentlemanly interest in the classics may be growing rarer each year, but we trust that the Classical Club will still be able, despite this fact, to maintain its influence and energy...