Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Munsterberg will maintain advisory relations with the department by correspondence...
...assistance has steadily increased its number of subscribers, has met the necessary expenditures required for its publication, its office expenses, and for the distribution of such sample copies and other information in regard to it as a vigorous business policy demanded, and has enabled the management to create and maintain for it such a character as, we believe, will make its tentative subscription list permanent...
...vard" was broad and deep; in the Pennsylvania game the cheer could be but little distinguished from the short, sharp Yale yell. Even the "nine long Harvard's" which used to be so impressive are now cut much too short. The leaders of the cheering seldom try to maintain the old-time cadence, and there is danger that it will be entirely disused. The merest hint should surely be sufficient to check this tendency...
...unfortunate relations, so decisive action was delayed until Harvard broached the subject of a next year's game. And then came the letter, which, although it was likely to take away one prominent feature from our coming football season, was inevitable in some such form, if we were to maintain our self-respect. We repeat, our stand has not been hastily taken, nor is it representative only of the opinion of a few thoughtless undergraduates - it represents the mature consideration of many, old and young, who have the best interests of the university at heart...
...year 1824 saw the lowest tide in the history of the public schools of the towns. Of the one hundred and seventy-two towns required by law to maintain schools, scarcely one hundred were complying with the law. In this year the legislature determined to exempt all towns of less than 5,000 inhabitants from the educational law, and this released 162 of the 172 towns from their obligation. The academies now became all important and the grammar school was all but extinguished...