Word: maintain
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Mohammedanism was still another factor responsible for the rupture of the Mediterranean empire. The people of Asia hated emperors who were always trying to maintain the balance between the Orient and the Occident; they hated Christianity because they had a horror of the metaphysical Trinity as being an inhuman conception...
...Lecture Hall. The question submitted by the Seniors, is: "Resolved, That it should be the policy of the United States not to hold territory permanently, unless with the purpose that it shall ultimately enjoy statehood." W. H. Davis, W. O. Hubbard and W. Tyng, the Senior team, will maintain the affirmative, and M. Kabatchnick, H. A. Nye and a. N. Holcombe, for the Juniors, will support the negative. A. A. Ballantine 1L., R. L. Scales 1L, and F. W. Catlett 1L. will act as judges. E. Root, Jr., 2L. will preside...
...Scientific School alone. There is a common but mistaken idea that the buying of an H. A. A. ticket is a contribution to support athletics, when, in reality, it is nothing but a cheap form of admission to the various sports. The sums raised among the undergraduates to maintain all the University teams do not greatly exceed what was subscribed by the College to keep up the crew alone twenty years ago, at a half as large as at present and represented far less wealth. In those days no team was self-supporting--all had to depend upon voluntary subscriptions...
...will maintain a basin 8 miles long and will affect the level of the water as far as the dam at Watertown. There will be 17 1-2 miles of shore-line, nearly all of which will be devoted to park purposes, the land having been purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the City of Cambridge. The level of the basin will be about 2 feet below the present mean high tide level...
...causes of these variations are due to economic conditions, constitutional vices, and to the habits and traditions of the people. Traditions of free governments are slow to form and quick to perish, which renders it all the more necessary to make and maintain such traditions, essential as they are. A party on coming into power ought to have a definite doctrine and should strive for the ultimate welfare of the country. There has been a decline in the qualities of the legislatures in all governments during the last forty years. This, to some extent, has been due to the great...