Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...youngest student in the class of '90 is 15 years 2 1-2 months old, while the dignity of the class is upheld by two men who have obtained the age of 27 years 5 months. Below are the tables of the youngest and oldest men entering the classes...
...considered some of the grounds for this move. One of the strongest is the fact that to join the "Young Men's Christian Association" you must be a member of an evangelical church. So in future Unitarians are to be shut out of a society which they have long upheld. It is fairly evident then that the undergraduate clique of Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists has come to the belief that it is the "sole repository of pure truth." Such youths, it seems, are too good, or else too bigoted to mingle with heretical and wicked Unitarians. They hold that...
...only congratulate Harvard and the other colleges interested on the latest action of Harvard's faculty. Let us hope too that foot-ball, having successfully passed this crisis, will hereafter be upheld, without interference, for better or for worse by all colleges that have fostered the sport...
...permission from Mr. Gates. The essays must have an argumentative character and a literary form, and neither of these components must be slighted in order to enhance the effect of the other. By argumentative character is not only meant that one of two sides of a question may be upheld as in debate, but that both sides may be discussed, and it the arguments, fairly stated, tend to leave the question in doubt, the forensic will not for that reason be considered a failure. It is Dr. Royce's earnest advice that topics be chosen which bear directly upon...
...Exeter alumni met in New York recently. Dr. Perkins, Dr. Scott, Prof. Wentworth, Geo. S. Hale and others, upheld the glory of old P. E. A. in after-dinner speeches...