Word: retained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state [hydroelectric] agency should provide the financing of and retain the fee to any system of state-wide power transmission of electricity made necessary by the new [St. Lawrence] power development. . . . This would reduce the cost of electricity many millions of dollars each year . . . insure a fair and reasonable rate to the consumer, especially the household user. . . . The families of this state have been paying too much for their electricity and are therefore not in a position to use to a proper degree the many labor-saving devices of modern invention...
These are all relatively unimportant, however, for there is one phase of Harvard on which money must be spent if the University is to retain its prestige, and it must be spent at once--to build up and maintain the faculty. If constant effort is not made to attract great teachers and scholars, if constant opportunities are not provided the teachers and scholars already at Harvard, the faculty must of necessity deteriorate. Many have felt, and not without some reason, that over the past decade too much attention has been given the problem of building up the physical side...