Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have reached a period in the world's history when it must be recognized that if we are to maintain peace we must be prepared to defend ourselves. Let us not forget that as the nation is, so are its governments, its public service, its army and its navy...
That summer baseball is the real cause of 90 per cent of the infractions of the college amateur rules can hardly be questioned. A good ball player is always in demand, especially among the summer hotels, which have been accustomed to maintain teams to play with other hotel teams in their vicinity. Few are the college undergraduates who care to or who can afford to play for nothing, and so they are tempted to break the rules and oftentimes fail to report to the college authorities or voluntarily withdraw from participation in college athletics. Some of the eastern college, notably...
...policy of the editors is to secure the best experts in foreign countries, as well as in the United States, in order to maintain the highest and most authoritative standard possible within the field indicated. The preliminary statement of the new quarterly expresses the hope that "'The Military Historian and Economist' will appeal not merely to army and navy officers anxious to keep abreast with the theory of their profession, but to the plain man of business who realizes that the isolation of this country has gone forever, that the clash of armies is merely the most violent incident...
...further safeguard against lowering the College standard, men so admitted might easily be required to maintain a higher record in their College work...
...have the affection and admiration of other university already. You read the other day now Yale had of her own initiative disqualified five athletes for unwitting infraction of amateur rules, and you read that Harvard begged Yale not to do it. You may think that is quixotic, but I maintain that it is the true spirit of sportsmanship among gentlemen...