Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement concerning the accomplishment of the Alumni Placement Bureau during the past year, J. F. Dwinnell has added much fuel to the fire of those who maintain that colleges, by a process of protective coddling, unfit their students for effective participation in a calloused world. The head of the bureau suggests that the reason for the failure to place more men in the last two graduating classes is that those men either refused to believe that conditions beyond the cloister were as bad as had been represented, or had reason to expect that the family budget would somehow permit them...
...German names should be included in a memorial tablet dedicated to all Harvard's World War dead, and that the Corporation was unjustified in interpreting the unexpressed opinion of the donors so as to exclude them. Despite an apparent futility, the CRIMSON wishes to reiterate that stand, and to maintain further, in view of subsequent events, that a courageous expression of opinion would have reflected far more honor upon the Corporation than a policy which has sought, by its timid half-steps, to appease or to delude possible criticism...
...confused with the National Academy of Design is the American Academy of Arts & Letters, an assemblage of unofficial Immortals who maintain a gallery and clubroom in Manhattan's frozen north, at No. 633 West 155th St. Four weeks ago the U. S. Immortals assembled to honor one of their most distinguished members, 72-year-old Gari Melchers. On the 50th anniversary of his first exhibited painting, "The Letter," shown in the Paris Salon of 1882, they held a dinner, presented him with a gold medal and turned over their gallery to a memorial exhibition of his work. Last week...
...North Atlantic, which it has been asserted, have no value except in the unlikely event of war. Let the government turn the island over to Mrs. Peabody, and guarantee to keep it barren. There Mrs. Peabody, and for good measure the lame duck dries in Congress, can maintain unhampered their ideal regime, the Sahara of the Boozart...
Under the present arrangement lost books are replaced only at the request of a member of the faculty. The officials maintain that all essential books will sooner or later be called for by instructors and that students who really want certain books will prevail upon their instructors to go to the trouble of having them ordered. Such naive beliefs would be surprising in any but those who must spend an undue amount of time threading the mazes of Widener...