Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with ability to manage an athletic team. Long lists of great Executives whose college standing was not phenomenally high might be adduced to back this point. A man has to be strong in his studies to stay off the probation list through a stiff competition. Provided he can thus maintain a satisfactory stand there is no reason why he should be given a managership for scholarship any more than an athlete should receive his Y for similar A grades...
...life is a struggle for the continuation of his historical identity against many fearful odds. It is the struggle of a social inheritance, which no Jew can dispose of and remain at peace with himself, trying to maintain itself in a world which is inhospitable, if not altogether hostile, to it. In this uneven conflict of tradition with a foreign environment, of conscience with convenience, the Jew is faced with the real Jewish problem. I imagine that this real Jewish problem could be solved at once, for all Jews, and for all time, if we could be solved at once...
...self-sacrifice, they often bring upon themselves misunderstanding and suspicion, Still others demand their full rights as men and insist also upon their full rights as Jews, and when these two come in conflict, they clamor for special privileges. Instead of sympathizing with them for their honest strivings to maintain a difficult position, the world treats them with impatience as a general nuisance...
Coach Spaeth has commented upon the expense and time necessary to develop a crew that can maintain the staying power annually exhibited at New London. Ever since English methods were first applied at Harvard, rigorous training has been a permanent feature in rowing. There was a time, indeed, when the squad trained throughout the year, working on the machines and running five or six miles on alternate days in the winter time. It undoubtedly requires time and equipment to teach men to row correctly. But to relax emphasis upon form and the finer points of the sport would call forth...
...When South Meets North" will always maintain a high reputation. It is a show which anyone would want to go to, even if he forgot that it was given in the interests of that most worthy institution. The Vincent Memorial Hospital...