Word: maintains
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...admitted under the new plan were from public schools from all parts of the country. Yale's move in this direction comes as a result of the demands of secondary schools and is the frank admission that a college, if it is to be national, must maintain an elastic and general system of entrance requirements...
...summarizes the advances made during the past year and outlines the changes and expansion to come in the imminent future. That Harvard University is in a period of transition and of extensive development is clearly shown by the report. If Harvard has been provincial in the past, as some maintain, and depended for its constituency on a particular section, the successful application of the new admission plan has opened the gates to men from all parts and all schools, and the development of Harvard into a great national university is well under way. The movement toward nationalization is attended...
...election of judges for short terms accounts for many of these evils Several states, notably the state of Michigan, have had for a time good elective judiciaries; but the electors do not consistently maintain the highest standards of selection, and not infrequently fail to re-election the most admirable judges. Indeed, such a tenure of judicial office disregards some of the most obvious of human qualities. A judge who desires re-election cannot help considering what effect his conduct in the court-room and his published decisions will have on his re-election. As an elected judge grows older...
...number of candidates that answered the call for battery practice for the Freshman baseball team is insufficient. If the Freshman class is to maintain its superiority in baseball, as it has in football and hockey, it is absolutely essential that every man who has had any experience in either pitching or catching, report today, at the Cage, dressed to play at 3.45 sharp...
...forward. But too often we exaggerate its importance by regarding it as static. The true movement of life is towards the enlargement of itself; selfishness may be regarded as the basic cause of evil, and society having thus gotten out of gear, we are obliged to use coercion to maintain order. Evil proves the dignity of life in that it is the right of man to suffer, but it is the duty of man to turn evil to good. As the opposite of joy for work well done, we must pay for evil in the hard coin of pain...