Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale authorities make the interesting announcement that senior students in the Sheffield Scientific School who maintain high rank in their studies will hereafter be given the concession of a reduced tuition fee. For such students of high rank the tuition fee will be $200; for others it will remain fixed...
...professional departments, charging a higher fee in one than in the other. This policy has been defended on the ground that some branches of professional education cost more than others. A medical or scientific school, for example, with large amounts of laboratory instruction, is usually more expensive to maintain than a college of liberal arts or a law school. It is not improbable that the policy of grading the fees in different departments of study according to the costliness of the instruction will eventually be adopted all over the country...
...Yale is the first institution to adopt it. If the plan works out well in the case of Seniors it will be extended, no doubt, to the entire student body. And why shouldn't universities make the attempt to place a premium upon brains in this way? Students who maintain high rank give an institution very little trouble. It is the dunce and the shirker who make it necessary for colleges to maintain an array of deans and other disciplinary officials. There is something to be said, therefore, for the doctrine that the better a student's rank...
...abolition of them is that the Chinese postal service be kept efficient, and that China continue to employ the foreign Co-Director General (who is appointed by China and serves in the interest of China and not of any foreign government). In the meantime the four Powers which maintain postal agencies in China will allow Chinese customs authorities under conditions to examine postal matter going through these agencies in order to prevent smuggling...
...provide the fullest and most unembarrassed opportunity to China to develop and maintain for herself effective and stable government...