Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...President Eliot has not been in close touch with the students; though his opinions and actions have often not been in accord with undergaduate sentiment or judgment; no member of the University can fail to feel gratitude toward him for the position he has so well helped Harvard to maintain. This gratitude would find its suitable expression on an occasion like the coming anniversary. What form such an expression should take, we do not suggest. The idea should come, as it doubtless will, from the students themselves...
...Resolved, that full membership in the House of Representatives should be given to members of the cabinet." Harvard has choice of sides. An early meeting of the joint committee from the New Harvard Union and the Wendell Phillips Club will be held to choose the side which Harvard will maintain, and to arrange for a competitive debate to select three members to represent Harvard in the final debate...
...justly maintain a distinction between different sports, in regard to what constitutes an amateur, especially in racing (gentlemen riders), and pigeon shooting? Can a profes...
Brahmanism, Buddhism, and Christianity all agree in asserting a revelation, though Christians go so far as to maintain that the revelation made to them was the only true one. There are many other points of similarity in the three religions. Floods, fires, and cataclysms appear in them all; all insist on the immortality of the soul and the immutability of the supreme Being; and all have a heaven and a hell. Of course the details vary, but the general underlying basis remains, and it is this with which theosophy concerns itself...
...will, judgment or conscience is preferable to unswerving allegiance to party." With the resolution thus in shape he proposed to strike at the root of the matter and consider what is a man's chief duty to civil society. Without doubt it is to establish and maintain a civil government that shall promote the chief ends of civil society, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. From this point of view we may readily divide the voters of a state into three classes: First, the conscientious citizens, or men of "independent action"; second, the men who support their parties through...