Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University could have been given to the new students than that of last night. We sincerely hope that this custom once established will always be kept up. In no other way could the faculty representatives show so well to the student representatives what spirit the latter must gain to maintain and assure the honor, dignity and future of our University...
...eight hour system not economically disadvantageous.- (a) For the manufacturer, since competition regulates and production limits wages: Walker, Polit. Econ. 263.- (b) For the laborer, since by greater energy he can maintain former production: Report of Illinois Bureau of Statistics, 477-478.- (c) Lessened production pro rata not disadvantageous to capital, labor or state, since unemployed, previously supported by others, now become self-supporting: Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...after three or four years simply because they lose their earnestness. They get nothing to take the place of the faith they have lost. They have stopped to salute every man by the way, and distracted by the questions on all sides of them, they have been unable to maintain their zeal. One way, then, to overcome this evil is to inspire the young with permanent enthusiasm...
...York this spring, or to take part in no college track athletic matches. If the latter course were pursued, track athletics would suffer a blow as severs as did football in the year when Harvard was allowed to play no matches. The athletic committee, therefore, in order to maintain its principle of injuring no branch of athletics at Harvard, has taken the only course open...
...report for 1889-90 President Eliot maintains his attitude of hostility to freshman intercollegiate sports. He says: "The best number of intercollegiate contests is the smallest number which will maintain a keen interest in each sport. A strict application of this principle would exclude intercollegiate matches between freshmen." This is precisely what it would not do. The one reason for organizing freshman teams is that they act as feeders to the university teams. They bring into athletics many men who would feel themselves hopelessly beneath the standard of university teams, but are glad to try for freshman teams. They form...