Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...claims, when she refused to accept arbitration, alleging that she had suzerainty. The Boers acceded to England's demands on Aug. 19-21, on condition that England merely kept her promises, made in the convention of 1884. The Boers would have acceded to the English claims, which the affirmative maintain, would have brought peace and prosperity to South Africa, on condition that England should give up her claims to suzerainty, according to the treaty of 1884, and their terms, had they been accepted, would have effectually prevented...
...Conception, as well as to confession and absolution. His strongest belief is in the absolute power which is vested in the Church, represented by the Pope. In his Encyclics many of the evils of the times are attributed to placing State power above that of the Church. These writings maintain that teaching should be restricted, and that no philosophy or science should be taught which goes against the Church. The most important of these Encyclics, entitled "Libertas," appeared in 1888. In this letter the Pope protests against the worship of liberty, saying that the Church must govern all worship...
...last year's 'Varsity crew, the editors-in-chief of the College papers (some of whom spend more hours in working on College matters than almost any other undergraduates) and the members of the debating teams, about the encouragement of which we cant so much. Would the graduate manager maintain that the president of even the Lampoon had not a better right to ticket privileges than a substitute on the Freshman squad? I cannot see how he could, especially since it is known that Boston speculators have been selling tickets in the middle section since last Friday...
...teams is almost impossible because, in the first place, nearly every team has on it one or more law or divinity school men, since it takes that long to develop 'varsity debaters, and in the second place there can seldom be found among the undergraduates a man able to maintain the control necessary to produce harmony under his coaching...
SIRS:- Will you permit me to say a word of protest against the editorial in the current Monthly which attempts to define the attitude which Harvard undergraduates should maintain in the present state of public affairs...