Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which the officers of the Harvard Athletic Association propose to adopt in a limited number of events in the coming fall athletic meeting, offers exceptional inducements for men desiring to compete yet fearing the overwhelming odds of defeat, to enter themselves for these events. If Harvard is to maintain her supremacy in general athletics for the future, it is certainly necessary, in view of the large athletic loss that the college sustained in the departure of the class of '82, that a large number of new entries be made this fall and next spring from the lower classes, and especially...
...itself. We have every reason to anticipate successes for our crew and nine, and let us here forcibly remark that much depends on them this spring. The whole college anxiously awaits the results of the different games and races, and every one feels that the crimson must acquire and maintain a prominent position...
...often doubted whether college students as a class ever maintain an active interest in the current events and discussions of American politics. An interest in the details of party management, in the workings of the spoils system, and in the glories of American stump oratory and buncomb is hardly to be expected of them. But that they do generally keep up with the current drift of discussions of political principles to as great an extent as almost any other class in the community is, we believe, the case. In our own case, this abundant interest in current politics and party...
...devise such a scheme requires no little foresight, - to found a government that shall maintain its respectability has yet to be done. Of ours, some call it a farce, and others - well, others say nothing...
...German university has done, from all responsibility for the moral training and conduct of students; but a university of native growth, which will secure to its teachers an inspiring liberty and an unlimited scope in teaching, offer its students free choice among studies of the utmost variety, maintain a discipline adequate to the support of good manners and good morals, but determined by the quality of the best students rather than of the worst, admit to its instruction all persons competent to receive it, while jealously guarding its degrees, and promote among all its members a productive activity in literature...