Word: maintain
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...intellectual community,"--the "community of culture" once envisioned by President A. Lawrence Lowell, who installed the House system--by allowing Houses to develop reputations based on residents' interests. But in encouraging separatism, the College discourages the inter group contact that is the raison d'etre of intellectual diversity. Administrators maintain the preferential lottery largely in the name of the traditions that have grown up around individual Houses. In doing so, though, they subvert a broader tradition: what Epps calls President Lowell's "notion that people from different social classes were to rub shoulders together...
...million stabilization fund has likewise presented problems. From a financial standpoint, it is by no means clear that a fund of this size would suffice to maintain the museums in a reasonable state without incurring deficits. Such a fund might well prove adequate. But it is quite possible that deficits would ensue...
...making additional contributions of this magnitude. The Reagan administration is making truly massive cuts in federal funds for higher education. Inflation continues to drive up costs more rapidly than our endowment income. Economic prospects are not favourable, avoid further erosion in the real income of our faculty, and maintain the Houses' and other existing facilities...
...million stabilization fund has likewise presented problems. From a financial standpoint, it is by no means clear that a fund of this size would suffice to maintain the museums in a reasonable state without incurring deficits. Such a fund might well prove adequate. But it is quite possible that deficits would ensue...
...unfavorable for making additional contributions of this magnitude. The Reagan administration is making truly massive cuts in federal funds for higher education. Inflation continues to drive up costs more rapidly than our endowment income. Economic prospects are not favorable. We will need to do everything we can simply to maintain our financial aid programs, avoid further erosion in the real income of our faculty, and maintain the Houses and other existing facilities...