Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...institutions are popularly known, one can readily see that Harvard no longer has an international margin due to numbers alone. There are millions of people who have never heard of Harvard. It is to these that the name of the University must be introduced, if the latter is to maintain her lead, for did not Pennsylvania show from her registration books that she draws more students from a greater variety of countries than...
...will greatly depend upon the government to lend a hearty support to her own capitalists in their attempt to establish "a relation that would enable the United States to have an equal voice with the five other powers in guiding the development of Chin" and "to maintain the open door in her trade with that country." At the same time she will be doing the Chinese people a great service which I can assure any and every American they will never forget...
...ever sought to interrupt, but he has, in doing it, lowered America in the eyes of the world to a point which no civilized Caucasian nation ever reached before. The American government has not one friend among the peoples of the world today, and those who dare to maintain that American ideals are as sound as they ever were can only plead that the present administration does not represent the true state of public opinion in the country. If we are not to stand self-confessed as willing to surrender to anyone who may threaten us, be they labor leaders...
...Europe our record is no better. We have failed more shamefully than in Mexico to maintain our rights on land and sea. We failed to prevent the loss of American lives on the Lusitania; we failed to prevent British bullying and piracy on the high seas. Had we made our principle of strict accountability clear and unmistakable before the Lusitania sailed, we might have prevented a great catastrophe, and moreover retained the respect of a great nation. Had we brought England to her senses by so simple an expedient as the stoppage of munitions, we might have prevented the pilfering...
...principle of fair play is fortunately very prominent here in Cambridge. These articles which appear to have sprung up like mushrooms over night and without visible origin or reason, have a quality of feeling rather than of fairness. Whatever purpose or result they may have, we undergraduates should maintain the important consideration of loyalty and respect towards our professors, more worthy than the rash acceptance of uncertain insinuations. E. L. FLORANCE...