Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to say a word about the requirements for promotion to the sophomore class, that is, the standard of work which a freshman is obliged to maintain throughout his freshman year. You have heard that this is pretty severe and that the standard is high. I will take the case of a boy who came down from a large preparatory school last year. He was a real athlete and he gave most of the fall season to athletics; he also gave all the spring to it, and he did a certain amount of out-of-season practice as well...
...rather strange that an institution, theoretically self-respecting, should care to maintain such a breeding place for corruption. I wonder if the doctors who condemn Freshmen to "corrective exercise" know what Hemenway is like...
...Borah: "I am one of those who believe that the Constitution is of sufficient value, if it is necessary, to trace our way through blood and fire in order to maintain...
...report in part follows: "The completion of the new squash courts last year gave our club the largest squash department of any club in this country. It is intended to furnish our members the best facilities for playing squash. We propose to maintain a highly efficient staff of attendants, headed by a thoroughly competent professional. Invitations to use the courts during the least crowded hours will presently be extended to members' sons who are not yet old enough to be eligible to membership. During the year 18,904 games of squash were played, which is probably the largest number recorded...
Last but not least, let us spatter a brief word of praise upon F. M. Eaton '27 for his admirable rendering of a very difficult part--General Washington. First and always, he must maintain a dignity which will at no time seem ridiculous, even when he has to conduct a tete a tete with Miss Dashwood. The authors of the show have happily given him every opportunity to do "Washington justice, especially when he recites the Legend of the Durms, a serious dramatic monologue near the beginning of the second act. If the company are human, they, and especially Eaton...