Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...body as the American Academy, and the recognition it accorded the two new members, does something toward removing the impression that we are as a nation indifferent to achievements in arts and letters, and that we have no standards in such matters. The Academy is striving to establish and maintain such standards, as well as to encourage and stimulate interest in them. --Brooklyn Daily Eagle...
...time 114 Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates, have served in the Ambulance Service. Yale comes next with 40 members, which shows that the Service is in a way almost a Harvard enterprise. In the coming months when men are needed so badly, the University will have a chance to maintain the lead already established, if a greater number of men from the University enter the service...
...authorities of these institution have agreed "to establish and maintain a two-years' compulsory course of military training as a minimum for their physically-fit male students, which course when entered upon by any student shall as regards such student, be a prerequisite for graduation, to allot a minister of an average of three hours per week per academic year to military training and instruction, and to use their endeavors to promote its interests...
...markings which Mr. Lowell had noted at Flagstaff, whether they are continuous, as he assumes, or in reality discontinuous, as other astronomers assert, certainly exist, and Mr. Lowell's researches had the merit of being a positive and constructive theory concerning them, which he was willing to maintain against the world's denial. At all events, the observatory at Flagstaff remains, to be not only a monument to his spirit and his zeal, but to be also the lasting and the best means of demonstrating whether he was right or wrong. And in the last analysis, Mr. Lowell himself would...
...contemporary history similar to the one which produced such interesting and pathetic results a year ago, was given last week in the course in government 1 conducted by Professor Hormell. The course is comprised of freshman and sophomores, and the second year men came out just enough ahead to maintain their dignity and prove that one year had not been wasted...