Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to congratulate you on your expose of the Fascist methods used by our present Administration to maintain political power in your article on Emil Hurja [TIME, March 2]. I had a taste of it in our local WPA and resent to the innermost core of my being this threat to personal freedom and self respect. And what could be more brazen than the frank acknowledgment and the making scientific of a spoils system that smells to high heaven. It is high time we wrested the fate of our citizens from the clutches of the politician and entrusted...
...What I maintain is that if there is one radical teacher in the schools, colleges, or universities of this state, and this Oath Bill does away with him, it is worth more than words can tell...
...suggest that the course that you advocate, like the tyranny of Apollinaris, can lead only to the exploitation of the true student by those who have no finer sensibilities. The narrow and bigoted point of view that you maintain comes as a surprise to one who has always placed Harvard's intellectual preeminence above all other considerations. Is it not obvious that, at least to thinking people, in some small part the fame of the university is due to the non-athletic portion of the community? Not only must we witness the coarsening of the intellectual fibres of "college...
...clearly supreme and General Kashii rasped: "Orders to establish an emergency guard over conditions in Tokyo have been issued to the First Division. 'BY COMMAND OF THE EMPEROR, I have ordered mobilization of a portion of my troops at important points, the purpose of which is to maintain order in the capital and to protect important objects...
Harvard, then, has the standard of educational independence, a standard which American universities must maintain if the cause of education throughout the world is to continue its objective and unprejudiced progress. As President Dodds remarked, America especially faces the need today for "educated personalities" for the man who will not fear to take a determined stand upon a conclusion which he has reached through his own intelligence, not through an education which predetermines how and what he shall think, as is the case in Germany today. --The Daily Pennsylvanian