Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...injurious results. But as long as Harvard teams are allowed to compete in the event, and men are encouraged to come out for them, there should be competent coaching, in order that the risk of injury may be minimized and that the teams may have a chance to sustain the reputation of the College...
...Eliot closed by taking up the question of whether it is commendable to make these invaluable and scientific discoveries at the expense of the comfort or life of animals, which man uses in various ways to sustain himself. Dr. Eliot defended the tests on animals in these words...
...what service the University performs in maintaining in quiet constancy this opportunity of religious worship and instruction in the midst of the student community. And we are sure that there are many men who have not reflected how much they might do by their participation in those services to sustain this effort on behalf of the best life. Ministers of distinction of various denominations and from all parts of the country put their experience at the disposal of the students, not only in the Chapel services, but also by keeping the hours from 9 to 11 o'clock each morning...
...Journey," by E. B. Sheldon, a longish story dealing vitally with an ever-important theme--a son's belated grasp of a mother's love. So long as merely mother and son are before us, the author fares well, both in character-drawing and in his ability to sustain the scenes; but in the son's brief interim of idiocy, which involves an unscrupulous actress and her vulgar but honest husband, there is an undue amount of melodrama, even cruelty. For blind idealizing, even of the pertinacious, youthful sort, can readily be shattered without recourse to the more than bromidic...
...original compositions, the Sonata movements of E. Ballantine '07 showed a piano style of unusualy polyphony; the capricious "Apriltide," while trifling, was undeniable pleasing. Clapp's song "The Swimmer" showed the greatest individuality of style, the surest grasp of technique, and greatest power to sustain word...