Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trustees of Chicago University have decided to give up the attempt to maintain the institution...
...faculty against playing in New York is still in force, but it is understood here that they are willing to revoke it, from the fact that last fall's game was entirely devoid of unnecessary rough play, or serious accidents. It is the intention of the Yale men to maintain their present position with respect to this matter, and they have announced that under no circumstances will they consent to play both Princeton and Harvard at the home grounds of these colleges. - Boston Globe...
...living after they leave the college. If they look askance upon politics, it is because politics does not offer them a living. He would be an ill-advised youth who would rush into the political arena in the vain hope of honorably wrestling therefrom a competence sufficient to maintain him in his early years of struggle. Where would he begin? At the bottom of the ladder; in the common council, perhaps. There he would receive no remuneration. Nor as an alderman would he receive pay for his duties, at least, not in honorable fashion...
...EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Another article on student government appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON. The idea that the students were to be made to do police duty was ridiculed. But any committee elected to maintain order in the yard must, if they act officially, do police duty; and police duty is very unpopular at Harvard College. If they act unofficially or not at all, there is no use in electing a committee. And yet, however great confidence the faculty may have in us, and I sincerely hope we deserve it, it is still necessary, if we undertake student government, to have...
...captain, in loyalty to his class, ought to require that every man under him should do his utmost to further the efficiency of his team, or at once withdraw from it. It is a disgrace to the crimson that it is worn by men who care so little to maintain its reputation. The college will lend an enthusiastic support to any team which is determined to win, but it will in no sense tolerate lax and aimless work...