Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this program does not go. then-Dr. Wilbur's investigators believe-insurance companies will be obliged to provide health insurance. Fraternal societies have been doing that for their members a long time. It is what churches do when they maintain hospitals in which congregation members get cheaper rates than do the general public. The medical services of railroads, ships, lumber camps, rubber plantations form a kind of group insurance from which all employes benefit and to which they indirectly contribute. Certain tentative modifications of such insurance methods are now functioning. Dr. Wilbur referred to a Los Angeles clinic which...
...order to maintain House crews at a high standard. It seems advisable to make eligibility rules inclusive enough to permit Tutors and all members of the House who are not on a University crew, and who are not II men, to take part in the House rowing. In this way, with the aid of a few possible oarsmen on the tutorial boards, and a few additional oarsmen of class-crew ability, House crews of high standard could be arranged...
...oust lazy or stupid students? Many a tax-paying parent might feel that, having paid his money, he has his rights. Last May this question interested one Jean West, 19, freshman at the Teachers' College of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) which is State-supported. Suspended for failure to maintain a required standing, Miss West sought to restrain Miami University from expelling her. Her counsel argued that higher education is for everyone, that Miss West, daughter of a taxpayer, had a right to hers. She won her case, but a higher court reversed the decision last December. Reason: a pupil...
...limiting of membership in the Department of History and Literature will make it possible for the field to maintain the peculiar advantages which it has long had. The personal relationship between faculty and students, and the close acquaintance among concentrators themselves, which have become a tradition in the department, have been possible only because the field has not grown large and unwieldy...
...generally considered that architecture is at the present time in a "period of gestation", and that to date there has not been developed a satisfactory or consistent style springing from the various experiments since 1900 or so. The authors of this book, however, maintain that a new style has been born, and they dub it "The International Style...