Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bacardi Company enter into negotiations with more than one party at a time and your statement that "the Bacardis played one off against the other" is untrue and is most unfair to us. Our company has been in existence for nearly a century and we have endeavored to maintain it upon an ethical standard equalled only by the quality of its products. W. J. DORION Cia. Ron Bacardi S. A. New York City...
...free to sponsor timely discussions on whatever subject may be foremost at the moment. Dogmatic purpose, as well as the tub thumping and inane resolutions of an excessively liberal minority, are steadily to be avoided. If the Inquiry, having found concentration too difficult, does indeed prove able to maintain the promised attitude of rational impartiality toward world affairs, its unbiased forum will serve a definite need in the University...
...possibility of aggression by Germany. And a war of punishment on the part of France would simply mean another invasion of Germany, like that of 1923, through which France lost several million francs and immeasurable goodwill, and gained nothing of lasting importance. France will fight now only to maintain the status quo if that is threatened by an aggressively arming Germany. And Germany is not arming. England is, of course, as anxious to avoid a world conflict as is the United States...
Bingham's statement was made in reply to a demand by Thomas W. Slocum '90, former president of the Harvard Club of New York City, that Harvard in company with other Eastern colleges refuse to maintain athletic relations with West Point unless the Military Academy agrees to adopt the three-year varsity eligibility rule. Slocum made this speech at a dinner of the Harvard Club of New York and completely surprised his fellow members. Since no action can be taken until 1935, there has been no recent discussion of the matter, and with the break between Army and Navy healed...
Succinctly, then, the charge is this: That American undergraduates, even Harvard undergraduates, are taught not to think, but to accumulate card catalogues. It would be stupid to maintain that no advance had been made, and to overlook the growth of tutorial and general examination systems. But it would be even more stupid to insist that all is well. It is reasonably obvious that the cornerstone of, for example, a Harvard man's A.B. resembles very closely a collection of fifteen course grades; and it is certainly obvious to observers that those grades are acquired not through the medium of substantial...