Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Greek model, it is next necessary to ascertain just to what degree the former imitated the latter. Until lately the investigation on this subject has been narrow, because the interest has been purely historical. Some authorities say that Plautus was simply a translator and an imitator, while others maintain that he treated his models with great freedom and originality. The latter opinion is probably more just, for the passage of plots from one author to another is permissible and common in the history of literature...
...Natural History Society was the first college organization, so far, as we know, under whose auspices prominent lecturers were invited to speak before the students of Harvard. Having started such an excellent custom, the society now shows that it knows how to maintain it. The series of lectures on the Natural History of New England, of which the first is given this evening, promises to be the most interesting of the year, as well as the most instructive. The chance is not often given to hear such a group of notable men, recognized as authorities on their respective subjects...
...Should the City of Boston found and maintain a College...
...congratulate the men who were selected last evening to represent Harvard in the coming debate with Princeton. They have been chosen to a position of much honor, but of honor tempered with a heavy responsibility. It is for them to maintain unbroken Harvard's list of victories in debate, and they are not likely to find this an easy task. At Yale, interest in debating has only of late years seen a revival; but at Princeton this is not the case. Ever since the debating league between Harvard and Yale was started. Princeton has been eager to become a member...
...board that the change in management is the sign of no change in the general policy of the paper; that policy in the main has long been fixed beyond change. It remains for us only to alter as may be necessary the methods by which we seek to maintain in our proper sphere, the sphere of college life in general and of Harvard life in particular, the character of an efficient newspaper...