Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Such a course would have been in accordance with the general policy and traditions of the university, and it would have caused no unpleasant break in the cordial and beneficial understanding between the undergraduates and the faculty which it has been one of the chief honors of Harvard to maintain...
...than if they could be used in rotation by the students. Should Harvard expect to find sufficient room to exercise her hundreds of undergraduates in on fields no larger than are owned by many colleges less than half her size? More grounds must be bought if Harvard is to maintain her general interest in athletics. Moreover, this land should be determined on and bought at once, as the price of real estate in Cambridge is rising and will rise even more rapidly if an elevated road is built to Boston. Either the faculty should advise the corporation to appropriate...
...country as does Harvard, is the one university to which students in special branches must look for instruction. At present the demand for this instruction is but slight, but that it is increasing is shown by the growth of our departments of Sanskrit and Semitic languages. A university should maintain a number of chairs, which bring no direct returns, for the sake of its reputation. We feel sure that the experiment of offering instruction in Chinese, for instance, will in the end result to Harvard's advantage. It is for the sake of this indirect advantage, but seldom a pecuniary...
...faculty desire so much that athletics should become more general, only let them purchase or level a few more acres of ground anywhere near the college and they will find that the desired expansion will take place at once. By this resolution the standard which Harvard is to maintain in the future will be decidedly lowered. By force of circumstances we happen to be isolated from all the other colleges where athletic games are indulged in. For this reason we are dependent upon the various athletic organizations in the neighborhood for that practice, without which we cannot compete with other...
...weights of the oarsmen who have taken part in the English University boat races for the past three years, whows that the winning crews have gained in weight at the end of the training, while the losing crews have afforded evidence of over-training by a failure to maintain the body weight through the training season...