Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problems which the proposed Third College would meet are those which every large university must remedy in its own way. It remains to be seen whether. Yale can do away with the very definite social disadvantages which President Angell cites in his address and can maintain its traditional educational standards, at the same time adding impetus to personal intellectual progress. Always conservative and with an eye to the college as a unit. Yale is in a position to conduct an experiment all the more significant be cause of the trend of the times in presenting problems which have...
...expressly understood that no part of the increased revenue obtained from tuition will be used for buildings, but solely to maintain and improve instruction in the departments already existing...
...from being an imposition upon those who are unable to bear it, the larger tuition fee is to be regarded as a long-deferred and necessary measure, one which will enable Harvard to maintain its standards as an educational center...
Scouting the contention that Germans might be permitted to maintain a "cultural influence" in the German-speaking areas of Alsace-Lorraine, he rapped: "We do not attempt to intervene in Belgium, Switzerland or Canada, on the pretense of protecting the French language or traditions in those countries. And we shall not permit foreign influence to glide into the administration of our own domestic affairs...
...always been the prerogative of the historian to present facts as they are known and to interpret them as his opinions and affiliations dictate. The English give to the Iron Duke the credit for Waterloo, the Germans acclaim Bluecher, and the French maintain that the battle was not won, that it was only lost. However much written history displeases a nation that considers itself aggrieved, active measures at suppression are rarely taken...