Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...satin upholstery, and statuary that surround us. Here a suppressed sneer is heard and we at once move out into the corridor. We go to the library, a wilderness of black walnut shelves, glass doors, carved tables, Ouida's novels, and long haired grinds. We snub the library, but maintain silence when we are informed that "you can get in, even after four o'clock." Another corridor, a door; we enter, and the first object that meets our eye is a black, battered beaten, Brimless beaver with the magic legend upon it, H. '85, Below the hat is suspended...
President Eliot is quoted as saying, at a recent teachers' meeting, that it would be much better in the country for two or three towns to maintain one high school adequately equipped, rather than for each one to maintain a weak and poorly equipped high school. The only thing that stands in the way of such a union is local jealousy, and the sooner that is cast aside the better...
...publication of the letters, at least for the present. Careful consideration of the question in hand, together with a better acquaintance with both sides of the case, has convinced us that the publication of those letters will not be for the best interests of the college. We still maintain the advisability and necessity of a paid coach; we still consider Col. Bancroft the most available man for the position from his long experience and active interest in Harvard boating; we still feel sure that the course of the faculty will be injurious for the present to our crew...
Brown university has voted to maintain a four-oared crew this year...
...communications, or news concerning this University, or any of its members. Nevertheless, such is not only their privilege, but also, as students connected with the University, their duty. We have said that the college papers ought to take more notice of the Annex. We go a step farther and maintain that the young ladies of that institution ought to find considerable in the college papers to interest them. Aside from the athletic news in the papers, the greater part of the writing in the papers is on subjects relating to the University. We do not write in the mercenary hope...