Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Captain Fisher of the 1911 football team the CRIMSON takes pleasure in offering the congratulations and support of the undergraduates. In the work of Captain Withington of this year's eleven he has seen inaugurated a standard of efficient leadership which will be difficult to maintain, but which will furnish an inspring example to many future football captains...
...would be impossible to maintain that Harvard is merely a rich man's college, if even the most cursory examination were given to the report of the University Employment Office, recently published by R. A. Derby, who is in charge. During the past year 956 men, or nearly one-quarter of the total enrollment of the University, made application at the Office for remunerative employment of some sort. In all, $136,849.77 was earned during the past year, of which about a half came from positions secured directly through the Office, while the other half was secured through members...
...there are thousands of people dying of slow and inconspicuous starvation. Professor Chapin, of Beloit College, after having made a study of three hundred families in New York, made the statement that a family of six must have an income of at least $800 each year in order to maintain the efficiency and health of its members. If a smaller income is received, that family may be said to be living in poverty. Yet an income of $800 to an immigrant family of six would be a fortune...
Professor Merriman has a practical suggestion along these lines. He proposes a general examination at the end of the college course for which one should be preparing himself throughout his college course. Without denying the advantages of the present system of specific examination, he does maintain that it could be made far more effective still in combination with a more general test along somewhat different lines. The amount of information that the average American college graduate possesses, he believes, is not nearly so inadequate as is his ability to utilize that information, and to discover and make good...
...duty of every member of the class to vote, that we may elect men who will be the real choice of the class as a whole. We have proved our keen interest in the welfare of the class by the large attend ance at recent meetings, and should maintain this record by making a good showing at the polls today. R. P. LEWIS...