Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philippines are not yet ready to maintain a government without the support of the United States, and it is better for them to wait until they can thoroughly digest the powers now in their hands. The pledge of the United States to the world is that it will set up a staple government in the Philippines. If we backed out now, we should not have fulfilled our pledge...
...other hand, to maintain that compulsory residence in the Freshman dormitories--which has proved a great benefit in breaking up the social cliques that did much injury to the college--should not be established for 99 1-2 per cent of the students because the remaining one-half of 1 per cent could not properly be included, seems to me an untenable position...
Science is bound to play a greater role in our future. As the country develops and its natural resources become loss responsive to wasteful exploitation, engineers and economists must find the ways to continue progress and maintain life on a decent scale of existence for an ever-increasing population. With the increasing complications in the social and political structure attending the growth of population, and the fuller development of our economic resources, better methods must be found to administer the machinery of government and better men in greater number must be found to do the work of the state...
...Juniors will meet the Freshmen in the finals of the interclass debating series tonight at 7.30 in Smith Halls Common Room. The Juniors will maintain the affirmative against the Freshmen's negative, of the proposition, Resolved: "That Harvard should limit intercollegiate football to one annual contest with Yale, supplementing it with the Oxford system of intramural contests". The members of the teams, given in the order in which they will speak, follows...
Given everything short of actual independence, the great question now is whether Ireland has more than she can stand. The Free State, through the executive council chosen by the Parliamentary majority, has undertaken to guarantee rights which England has failed to maintain; "dwellings cannot be entered except in accordance with law"; "freedom of conscience and the free profession and practice of religion are inviolable rights." Free expression of opinion and the right of assembly without arms are also guaranteed. To fulfil these provisions faithfully the new government will have to reverse the traditions of repression and violence which have scarred...