Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arts and Sciences, a larger number than was chosen from the faculty of any other university, is an indication that Harvard's staff is still one of the foremost in the country. It is a tribute to Harvard's scholarship and at the same time an admonition that to maintain her standing, faculty replacement must continue to embody those fundamental policies which have functioned so successfully hitherto...
...University is to maintain its standing as one of the foremost educational institutions of the country. It must adopt a policy of faculty replacement which provides for competent instruction of its students as well as opportunities for research men. The men who are assigned to teaching for the most part much not be expected to do research work in order to secure promotion but must merit advancement according to their ability to understand their subject, keep up with its developments, and impart it intelligibly to students. Research and enlightenment much aid and abet each other. No educational institution can maintain...
...blackamoors whom the Turks brought from Abyssinia and emasculated to stand dispassionate guard over their women, remain. Some have found jobs in Istanbul's national museum. Others work as doormen, waiters, handymen, servants. The rich and successful eunuchs who once held vast power in Turkey, help to maintain clubs near the great oldtime palaces, where the destitute members of their lost calling gather, dress up, observe the old etiquet, gossip, intrigue and try to keep back their tears. They love platonically and when disappointed, sometimes lose their appetite, develop consumption...
...most sincere, and for that reason perhaps the best contribution is the story, "Community Nurse" by J. A. Strauss. The self-conscious detachment which the criticism labored to maintain is here replaced by an unaffected and sensitive objectivity. It is true that the realism is frequently too studiously casual, yet the tension and the pathos of a small town in the Southwest have been caught with remarkable fidelity. The articulation of the story is sometimes creaky; Jack and Laura, for instance, as characters are lorded more heavily than their shoulders can bear. Yet it would be well...
...Japan is at present in a position to maintain peace in the Far East and does not need the help of others. If the League of Nations should take concerted action in China having political significance, it would be objectionable...