Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...relied exclusively on students fees, the income of endowments derived from private persons, and gifts for immediate use. It appears from the experience of the last hundred years that these methods of support, combined with the privilege of exemption from taxation, can be trusted in this country to maintain an institution of the first class generation after generation: and that the graduates of such an institution can hold their own in regard to professional success and public service-ableness in competition with the graduates of any other institution of higher education however supported...
During the coming year the orchestra will have the advantage of improved facilities in the new Music Building; it has behind it the record of a season successful from every point of view; and it ought to maintain a high standard of artistic achievement in the future...
...militia, and will march whenever they are ordered. Others will enlist when needed, and as many will go as the country needs. No one who knows our undergraduates will doubt for a moment that they have the stuff that soldiers are made of: that they will endure hardship, maintain discipline, fight bravely, and sacrifice their lives without flinching; for although, even in a war covering the whole of Mexico, if such a war should come, few, if any of you, will probably reach the firing line; death will take its toll by sickness in military camps and hospitals, leaving homes...
...year under Mr. Gries and the second half-year he will devote his time to field work at the Bussey Institute. In this way, with the two divisions of the course clearly separated and thoroughly treated, greater efficiency in the whole subject will be achieved and the school will maintain a position far in advance of similar institutions...
Pools, which Professor Durand defined as agreements in the scale of prices and other commercial regulations between two or more corporations, are, like the Trusts, worthy of serious thought. Although, by reason of their loose organization, they are less able to maintain monopolies and other unfair competitive methods, experience shows that the public, as a rule, has been forced to pay excessive prices for those articles on which the pools have operated...