Word: maintainable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another manner, as well, the Critic has failed to maintain the policies which formed its original excuse for being; it has to a large extent, ceased "to criticize the University and its policies." While essays on general subjects of national or international interest are unquestionably readable, they do not represent the most efficacious mode of expression of a publication such as the Critic. It is the only undergraduate publication devoted entirely to articles and essays; it is in touch with undergraduate affairs; while comments on the state of the world are best to be found in such magazines...
...there are lighter touches. When the Widow Quinn bargains with lily-livered Shawn to get the playboy out of the way, when the drunken Flaherty endeavors to maintain a fatherly dignity, when the playboy discovers his good looks, when "Pegeen" upbraids him as a pretender, then does Synge bring to the foreground his intimacy with the Irish humors...
...neck in the League race with 1.000 per cent, the Crimson having won two League contests, the Lions five. Harvard now stands second in the association with .667, and will not have a chance to raise its percentage until Thursday, May 6, when Pennsylvania arrives in Cambridge. Columbia will maintain its record of .887 percent at any rate until Monday, May 10, when they engage with Princeton on Thursday, May 13, when they have a double-header scheduled with the Big Green...
Philosophy A could be a course to challenge the intellectual curiosity of all but the most sluggish student, but succeeds only in bewildering the few who can manage to maintain interest in a large and poorly managed course...
Without distinction between honor and pass degrees, colleges must rest on a single standard for fitness, and it is the excellence of each college which determines the rigidity of that graduating standard. To maintain it many men are deprived of the pleasure of working at a college level during their freshman year, to achieve the first steps of Parnassus which their preparatory schools ignored. Present educational conferences regularly allot one day to discussing the problem, and their conclusions are never sanguine. Any lowering of the barriers to admit men, however attractive and promising personally, who must be laboriously assisted through...