Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crier north to Perkins Hall and south to Mt. Auburn street and the Freshman dormitories to give those sections the benefit,--not of this rising bell,--but of this ineffective disharmony. It seems that Seniors alone are selected for this schoolboy regulation. To the hard-hearted Faculty members who sustain it, the suggestion is made that they experiment by spending a night in the Yard,--and then vote to still the early morning noise...
This is not the time to review the methods of education in foreign countries. To be successful, any system must be consistent with itself, and it is unsafe to graft a foreign limb into a root unadapted to sustain it. So far as culture is concerned, our problem is to develop, in harmony with our own institutions, a type of education that will cause young people to enjoy the things the world has agreed are beautiful, to be interested in the knowledge mankind has found valuable, and to comprehend the principles the race has accepted as true. This is culture...
...something more than of a routine order. The change in his attitude is nor due to fickleness on his part or to ambition to play a larger role in the government. The zeitgeist has forced the role upon him, providing he is found to be morally able to sustain it. Some of the things which Mr. Wilson wrote in 1884 would, if written in 1913, be written differently...
...degree toward the construction of a much needed library. That the plan is practicable has been shown by its success at Yale, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that its application at Harvard would provide at least sufficient reimbursement for the loss of income that the University might sustain by the granting of funds for the immediate construction of a new library...
...most fortunate features of the meet was the comparatively few accidents. Nobody was seriously injured and no aeroplane was damaged beyond repair. A. V. Roe was the greatest sufferer in this respect, breaking both of his triplanes, because his engines were not powerful enough to sustain the machines in air. The aviator himself escaped with a few scratches and bruises. Kearney's Pfitzner monoplane was nearly demolished early in the meet when his engine stopped and he crashed into the wire fence in front of the grand-stand. Kearney fortunately sustained but few injuries himself. Clifford B. Harmon, an amateur...