Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard professional schools during the last thirty years; the increased requirements for admission to Harvard College during the first twenty years of this period; the corresponding elevation of the standard of secondary schools; and the determination of the governing boards of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to maintain the degree of Bachelor of Arts in its full significance as the degree representing a general liberal culture. He then goes on to say that in view of the improvement which has taken place in secondary schools, and the fact that the standard of daily work in Harvard College...
...team, was the assistance lent by one man to another and the way in which the team stood together. This, coupled with the magnificent physical condition of the men, indicates a high mark in Harvard's football history, which it is hoped that future coaches will be able to maintain...
...four o'clock. As neither team has practiced, it is difficult to predict the score or estimate the fatalities. The large drain on CRIMSON material made by the University nine, and the recent increase of the Lampoon's board may make it a little difficult for the CRIMSON to maintain its hitherto unbroken succession of victories, but the despairing efforts of the Lampoons to obtain graduate players seem to show a weaker aggregation than usual. Last year the Lampoons were overwhelmingly defeated, as usual, in spite of the fact that it was their turn to furnish the umpire...
...lender in many cases will maintain that the student represented that he had or that he would have money in the bank on the date of payment and so a prima facie case of obtaining money under false pretence is established...
...Thanks to the zeal with which the professors of that university maintain the traditions of our tongue and the preeminence of our authors, I was able to secure an audience, and hold it to the last lecture. . . . I felt as much at home as before a Parisian audience. I had the profound satisfaction of being perfectly understood. I could see that my subject (Le Theatre Contemporain on France) had been studied thoroughly by those whom I addressed...