Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the fundamental principles of library organization are the same in Europe as in the United States; libraries are newer, and hence have been enabled to maintain a thoroughly business-like system from their formation, with the advantage of having access to greater wealth, which facilitates an intricate perfection of organization, according to Dr. Pierre Roland-Marcel. Director of the Bibliotheque Nationale of France, the largest library in the world...
...cupboard. Mr. Mazur draws a comparison: "Europe's problem is that of the man whose farm and workshop have been destroyed and whose family demands the prime necessities, food, shelter, and clothing; whereas America's problem is that of the potentate who must not only maintain but even increase the magnificence of his palace and whose family demands all the furbelows and gewgaws that had once been luxuries but have now become necessities...
...preliminary training and by his service to Harvard Professor Blake is fitted for his task. His own statement demonstrates that he is aware of the more important problems pressing for immediate attention. The CRIMSON congratulates Professor Blake on his appointment, and is confident that he will maintain the high standard of cooperation set by the Library in the past...
...orators will maintain the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, That the United States cease to protect, by armed intervention, the foreign investments of its citizens." This, the first debate for the Freshmen, is also the first ever to be held between Harvard...
...traveled approximately 400,000 miles. Because the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer willed $500,000 to the Philharmonic, it could not legally abandon its identity. Therefore, it changed its name to Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York and at once absorbed the Symphony's directorate. Each orchestra will maintain its separate identity until the end of the present season. Of the new Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, chairman of the Philharmonic Society, will be chairman. President Harry Harkness Flagler, of the Symphony Society, will be president of the merger. The purposes of this musical merger...