Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pierian Sodality has worked hard this year to maintain its old position, d has been able...
Columbia is, little by little, getting acquainted with the methods of Harvard, and, as rapidly, making active use of this knowledge. Within recent years Columbia started on the enlightened road of liberal ideas, following the policy which Harvard has so long endeavored to maintain; their last move is in a worthy direction. Some recognition of the vast amount of work done by college instructors is altogether proper. A professor's life is not a life of ease, as business men delight to describe it-it is a life of hard work,- year after year, and these men deserve more gratitude...
...money has been left without conditions, except in two cases. In the case of the Union Theological Seminary the money has been be queathed to maintain cadetships. At Yale, too, the bequest has restrictive conditions; it is to be used only for the Sheffield Scientific School...
...hard to understand the mental attitude of those students who can sell their fellow-students grand stand tickets for today's game at an advance in price and attempt to maintain their self-respect. Speculating in tickets, taking advantage of the fact that others cannot, or least do not rush to the first sale of tickets, is at best a business to be ashamed of; but carrying it on as a student among students, setting the value of a small gain above a regard for common kindness that should exist between man and man, to say nothing of college mates...
...proposed to play Harvard at New York on Thanksgiving day, but, regarding the rule, Harvard could not consider the proposal and the game will be played at Springfield. Moreover, the dual league scheme was abandoned last year partly because of the New England clause. Harvard is now bound to maintain this position, at all events for this fall at least. If there is to be a game, Harvard will have to insist that it be played in New England...