Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean Ackerman states, "journalism as a business is a public service unique in American economics," and with the problem exception of radio broadcasting, no business has the possibility of such direct and powerful control over the standards of modern advertising. Too often newspapers have though it possible to maintain a "courageous" editorial policy while at the same time maintaining an advertising and business policy that would stand little scrutiny; too few of the larger journals of the country have recognized the paradox of arguing vigorously in one column for industrial and political idealism and in the adjacent column ballyhooing...
With the continued scarcity of purchasers of student ticket books, it is apparent that something must be done at once if the famous Trojan rooting section is to maintain its high standard of excellence of former years...
...where Joseph Grundy, famed campaign cash collector, tariff lobbyist and onetime Senator, has "retired'' politically, he encountered the leanest pickings in years. But after the Maine election Treasurer Nutt reported to the White House (and the public): "This is making my job easier. People who want to maintain the present administration in power have gone to work and the money is coming in. I'm sure now we can raise $1,500,000.''* G. O. P. headquarters got out a 288-page campaign text book which, instead of being given away as heretofore, was sold...
Toward the Faculty and affairs scholastic, Acting President Duffield proposes to maintain a judicial rather than executive attitude. He will not go popping his head into classrooms or make long speeches at faculty meetings. The academic side of Princeton will remain in the capable hands of Dean of the Faculty Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, a quiet, smiling little mathematician, baseball addict, Princeton teacher for 32 years, whose memory is so prodigious that he needs no filing cabinets in his office. Dean Eisenhart's monument is Princeton's famed four-course plan, instituted in 1924, by which upper-class students choose...
...process of education has been defined as the "maturing of certain views of life and the creation of certain demands on life" or, in other words, the function of education is to stimulate and enlarge a man's philosophy. Accepting this definition of education it becomes impossible to maintain that Harvard educates any but a small fraction of its undergraduates. The majority of graduates have benefited in many ways from their four years here but they have in no way changed or added to their "spiritual experience"; what they have done is to crystallize a set of habits...