Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...junior team that won the open championship last spring in New York. Moreover, there is a great lack of new material. In view of these facts the members of the Fencing Club and every one in the University interested in fencing must exert every effort if Harvard is to maintain its high position this year. Both the intercollegiate championship, which has been held for four years, and the junior championship, which was instituted last year, must be defended against strong opponents. The latter is open to men who have never received prizes in fencing competitions. Thus, there are three places...
...present quarters in Newark, where its valuable library and relics are kept. Efforts have been made to have the society removed to Trenton, but the movement now on foot will probably meet with success. The offer made by the Princeton library is to the effect that the society maintain its separate existence, yet keep its collection of books and relics in the University library...
...means maintain the Harvard spirit of dignity and conservatism,- it affords the best of training,- but do not overdo it; let the thoughtless be more thoughful of others, and the over-sensitive less so. As to clubs, my experience has shown me that there are just as refined, manly men outside of clubs as in them, and in one club as another; such organizations could use their influence as well to establish and maintain an esprit du corps of all the students as to gain advatage exclusively for themselves...
...into an extreme and false idea of our part as men; as if in straining to show ourselves men of the world we had arrived at a standard of false formality and "priggishness" which the world will not tolerate when it receives us after graduation. "By all means maintain the Harvard spirit of dignity and conservatism, but do not over...
...truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The mirror is warped and shows us wrong in an utterly distorted form. The journalist's life is one of splendid opportunity, for the press today is sorely in need of men who will deny their pocketbook to maintain their manhood. The true greatness of a journal is not to be measured by its circulation, but by the truth it tells and the influence it wields...