Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bands and detach the life preserver so that I could see whether he had secured any writing or valuables, under the canvas or any part of it. He could not have been longer upon the rock than it would take him to do this work, because he could not maintain his position for any length of time and also because he must have been seen by others as the place is much traveled...
...There are those who maintain, respecting Princeton College, that, granting Dr. McCosh's eminent success in money-getting, the tone and manner of the students have not improved during his reign nor has the college advanced in literary culture. Such critics take exception to the perpetual stress laid on the getting of money, as though that were what the faculty chiefly looked for in the head of a college...
...individual players but it lacks steadiness and needs to play more together. The Harvard freshman have an unusually strong nine, furnishing the first baseman, pitcher and catcher for the university. Against such a nine '86 will have need of all the strength she can muster if she wishes to maintain unbroken the long line of successes left by other classes. - [News...
...writer, however, seems to forget that the larger colleges, like Harvard and Yale, have much better facilities for furnishing the much-talked-of "practical" education, than do his "small and weak colleges." They, like our high and grammar schools, are of the greatest importance in promoting education, but to maintain that there is no need of universities like our own, where "the purpose is to impart a high scholarly finish to the accomplishments of a privileged class," seems to be going a little...
...read them, it is suggested that some of our instructors in political economy or history step forward and expose the fallacies contained in these pamphlets. That there is, however, any danger to be apprehended from these pamphlets we doubt. We are far from being so dogmatic as to maintain that protection has no legs to stand on, but if the evasions and one-sided arguments of these pamphlets are the best exponents of the protectionist theory, the advocates of this side of the question can by such arguments only injure their cause among Harvard students who are accustomed to have...