Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every man's enthusiasm. Win in those branches before you try for honors in other courses. Cultivate such a spirit as will not allow any one who suits his own lazy, selfish inclinations where he might be of help to the college in one way or another to maintain his position before his fellow students, and then with every man honestly doing his best, physically, mentally and pecuniarily for the common glory you will see Harvard leap to the front where she belongs, and our friends from Yale and Princeton will once again dread to meet the Crimson...
...sharp and steady play could they beat Yale on her own grounds. One of the surest helps to a victorius game will be the presence of a large number of Harvard men to encourage their nine. Ninety-two has thus far a clean record and, we hope, can maintain it. A large share of the repsonsibility of this rests with the class which should send and unusually large delegation of supporters to its team...
...passage in Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" which, in view of the recent discussion about college discipline is so suggestive, that I venture to call your attention to it. Speaking of the discipline of colleges and universities Smith says: "Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and, whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave to him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability. It seems to presume perfect wisdom and virtue in the one order, and the greatest weakness...
...This local commemoration of one great event in the life of Washington and of the United States is well, but it is nothing compared with the incessant memorial of him which the schools and colleges of the country maintain from generation to generation...
...United States do not require a large navy. (a) We have no distant colonies to defend:- Holman's speech, Congressional Record, vol. 18, Appendix, p. 97; (b) we have proved our ability to maintain our rights without the support or a large navy, e. g. the Oregan Question, (see Schouler's History of the United States, vol 4, p. 503); The Alabama claims:- (see McCarthy, History of Our Own Times...