Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...disappoint, but none of us can make such a statement. We vary in our opinions from those who believe the work the Soviets are doing in Russia is at least an improvement over the age-long terrorism of the Czar to those who condemn it. None of us maintain that the program and methods of Lenine and Trotzky are "Applicable to the traditions, institutions and aims of this country." Some of us do fear lest the suppression in America of free speech and check of the revolutionary growth of industrial democracy, if continued, may lead to the same pitiful misery...
...standards. But it was not pre pared for what followed. Some of the spectators remembered that, before the war, plays by Holberg and similar authors were given frequently in Germany with great success. And they wondered what the H. D. C. would do with "Erasmus Montanus". How would it maintain the spirit of the 18th century and yet bring such a play home to the sensibilities of a present-day audience...
...many which will be necessary in order to carry the treaty once more before the Senate is a compromise relative to the fight over Article X of the Covenant. As stated therein, the United States, together with the other countries of the League, assume an obligation to maintain the territorial integrity of any country in the League. But action by the United States toward this end is in every case left to a decision of Congress as to what form our action shall take. Now, the stand taken by Senator Lodge on this matter is that, if the United States...
...think that the Association of college aeronautical societies would have the same tendency to arouse and maintain interest in flying as intercollegiate leagues do in athletics," said Mr. Cabot. "All college men who are interested in flying and anxious that America's air forces have an eminent place in the world will appreciate having an intercollegiate league behind them. And it is up to your society, as the senior aeronautical society in the American college world, to take the initial steps in this direction...
...Graduate School will also conduct research and investigation in education. It will maintain a Laboratory of Educational Psychology as at present, and in addition a clinic for the special study of children. School problems will be studied both in the schools and in the laboratory, and members of the Faculty will undertake surveys of schools and school systems. Work of this character has been conducted at Harvard since 1891, but has not developed as rapidly as at some other universities because of lack of means. Members of the present staff of the Division of Education have contributed in various ways...