Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must maintain our intimacy with the past. We must develop scholars who will bring us into closer understanding of the glories and blunders of other civilizations, who will convince our youths that the past is stored with object lessons of great value now. However, a few years of required Latin in school will not help us on the road. For all have future scholars they will only serve to waste the energy which might have been thrown into the direct study of Rome herself, of the splendor of her institutions, and the greatness of her sons. By all means...
...trustees of the estate object to the use which the University is now making of the $5,500,000 already received by it, and maintain that the intention of Mr. McKay is being defeated by carrying on the engineering courses under the roof of Technology instead of in the buildings and under the sole direction of the University...
...dying over there; we are not going on any international joy ride. Those of us who have been among the people of the countries at war know that Harvard has done more than any other American university to help relieve the suffering in this war, and we must maintain that record...
...impossible to maintain life at unutterably frozen temparature. Some social functions take place at a degree Fahrenheit which would crack the mercury in the thermometers used on Mars or the moon...
...unthinking are sweeping them away; it is to remember throughout a conflict its true cause and not to permit childish credulity and unreasoning desire to blind the nation into waging a barbaric war of hate and revenge, blood-lust and conquest. If we fight it will be to maintain our rights as a sovereign nation with honor and dignity; our aim will be to prevent our rights from violation in the future and it will not be merely to punish a present offender, for punishment is a means to an end and not an end in itself. It is regrettable...