Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mutual effects of mind and muscle. Let them study hygiene, and be conversant with the latest hygienic discoveries. By following these suggestions, Harvard would soon become the cynosure of all rowing-men on your side of the Atlantic, and, what is of infinitely more importance, would regain and maintain her supremacy with the least possible expenditure of time and strength...
...probability, regard with silent contempt any suggestions made to it by so insignificant a person as a contributor to the Crimson. But I cannot refrain from closing my letter with the remark that a paper that desires to have any influence upon public opinion ought to endeavor to maintain some reputation for accuracy; and that if such a paper feels called upon to find fault with a body of men who are at least the social and intellectual equals of its editors, it will find that an exposition of its views, worded in a rational and courteous way, will have...
...closing of the H. U. B. C. Boat-House to all undergraduates, except members of the Club, has been carried out, as was proposed some time ago, and of which notice was given in the College papers. The Executive Committee have found it impossible to maintain order in the Boat-House, and to pay the necessary expenses, without taking this action. The necessary expenses a year are: Four hundred dollars for rent, about eighty dollars for water, and fifty dollars for janitor's work. Any member of the University can become a member...
...maintain on Massachusetts' floor...
Most men appear to think that when they have purchased a print or two, the moral character of which is regulated by the reputation which they desire to maintain; when they have been elected to the St. Paul's, the Chess Club, the Institute, or the Athenaeum, etc., ad infinitum, and have encircled their shingles with gray passe-partouts; when they have carelessly slung any medals that they may possess over the shingles aforesaid, and when they have put photographs of a popular actress or two - probably Rosina Vokes, and some loose character in tights - on their mantelpieces, they have...