Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admission requirements and general academic standards should be maintained as strictly as they are at present. Students who represent Harvard on the football field should be representative Harvard men. This implies that they maintain their academic standing at all times...
...accompanying fortune are not so easy to forego in reality as in the theorized discussions of the ethics laboratory. Yet when one man has moral strength enough to play a game for what the game itself offers and no more, then college athletics by his single example maintain a higher, a better place in the development of youth; when another is weak, then he sets a feeble example to the next generation of football players and gives the outside world another chance to misjudge the colleges. Red Grange by choosing to become a successful machine, working or the pleasure...
...which Reza Khan has just committed against the constitution and against my dynasty was made at the point of the bayonet. . . . Against it I have raised a vehement and solemn protest. I consider as void and without value all present and future acts of his government. I maintain all my rights and those of my dynasty to the throne of Persia, which, by the grace of God, I hold according to the fundamental laws of my country's constitution...
...Steel directors are (as usual) most conservative concerning payment of large common dividends. They still maintain the regular 5% dividend on the common stock, and pay an additional 2% as a "regular extra" dividend. As yet they have not apparently seen fit to set 7% as the regular common dividend, though no one at present contemplates any actual reduction below this figure...
...Washington the National Council of the Congregational Church was addressed by President Coolidge, who is its Honorary Moderator.* The President chose as his text the interrelation between religion and government. He declared that "the chief function of organized government is to maintain order, provide security for persons and property, and set up instrumentalities for the administration of justice." Then he proceeded to dwell upon the manner in which religious influence may be exerted by both the clergy and the laity in helping the government to achieve its purposes; and crystallized his conception of the vital importance of religion...