Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany, a position formerly filled with varying success by William of Hohenzollern, was made by President Ebert. Dr. Gessler was described as an opportunist. He has been in three successive Cabinets, each of which has had a separate policy: Wirth Government, pledged to paying reparations; Cuno Government, pledged to maintaining passive resistance and refusing to pay reparations; Stresemann Government, pledged to seeking an exit from political, financial and economic depression. To each of these Governments the versatile Gessler has given his wholehearted support. He is considered an able orator and a strong man given more to suave diplomacy than...
...Color Club, has originated as an outgrowth of the Fine Arts Department for the purpose of stimulating interest in Fine Arts and to bring the professors and students together informally. At present the membership of 28 consists half of faculty members and half of students. The club plans to maintain continual exhibitions of the members' works in the rooms that are soon to be occupied by the club and to hold occasional exchange exhibitions with a similar club at Princeton. It also hopes to bring well known artists to speak at open meetings' on subjects of general interest. The arrangements...
Brooks House is able to maintain numerous excellent activities of a religious or philanthropic nature in virtue of its position as an endowed institution and as a result of the donations received from undergraduates in the annual drive. It is unfortunate, however, that the undergraduate who suggests these activities should not be better informed of their character and scope. If Brooks House maintains missionaries in Syria, for example, the undergraduate whose contributions have made this possible is entitled to know the facts. He has in the past, especially if he is a Freshman, contributed--often because of social pressure--knowing...
...future of continued democratization with its attendant evils. In 1923, after ten intensive years of such a process, there are signs of a natural reaction and of a growing sentiment in favor of at least a few colleges which, in opposition to the mammoth institutions of our generation, shall maintain for those who wish it and can benefit by it the tradition and ideal of liberal education...
...over a thousand years later, the idea of a Middle Kingdom has been renewed. However much the Berlin government may maintain the doctrine that not one foot of the Reich will under any condition be coded to the foe and that the astivities of the Separatists are merely treasonable outbursts fostered by the French, it is an undeniable fact that the Separatist movement is growing. Never emotionally or intellectually akin to the Prussian, the Rhinelander is now further impelled toward "separatism" by the chance of freeing himself from a government which he feels has misunderstood his needs and from...