Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...should strongly deprecate the lowering of the Harvard requirements for admission, but I believe that a set of uniform entrance requirements could be drawn up which Harvard could accept, and still, by determining the number of subjects to be passed and the quality of the preparation required for admission, maintain the level of its own standard unchanged...
Professor Parker: "At the first thought, I should oppose the adoption of uniform examinations at Harvard and indeed, elsewhere. Each college has its own intellectual ideals, and it is best for every college for its own sake and for the sake of the general cause of education to maintain those ideals separate and distinct. While I shall not assert that the Harvard requirements are better than those of all other colleges. I do believe them to be best for the particular kind of training the University aims to give, and I believe they should be uncompromised. Furthermore, examinations based...
...team representing the Senior Senate defeated the William E. Russell Club of Boston University at I aac Rich Hall, Boston, last night. The question was "Resolved, That the United States should use every means to maintain the integrity of the Chinese Empire." Harvard supported the negative and won chiefly by the unusual tactics of forcing her opponents to accept her interpretation of the question. The Harvard speakers, W. T. Foster, D. C. Hirsch, and W. Catchings excelled in analysis of the question and in rebuttal. The Boston University speakers, R. H. Newcomb, I. M. Huggan...
...question for the debate is, "Resolved that the United States should use every means to maintain the integrity of the Chinese Empire. The Senior Senate will support the negative...
Senior Senate Debate with the William E. Russell Club of Boston University. Isaac Rich Hall, Boston, 8 p. m. Question: "Resolved, That the United States should use every means to maintain the integrity of the Chinese Empire." Admission by ticket only. Tickets can be obtained for 25 cents at Thurston's. A limited number of tickets may be obtained free by members of the University from officers of the Senior Senate...