Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months the tenure question has filled the air. The desire to maintain Harvard's educational standards has served as a basis for demanding retention of the ousted assistant professors. There is, however, a new and more important reason why the "middle group" of teachers should be not only maintained but perhaps expanded...
When Harvard was expanding rapidly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it needed many famous scholars to attract a student clientele; it was a young university. Now its position is more firmly established. Now a minimum of great names is needed to maintain its place in the sun. What is needed, however, to improve the second and now more important source of its greatness is a greater emphasis on teaching in order to train the embryo "great names" of the future...
...TIME for Oct. 9, your interesting account of submarine warfare leaves me a bit puzzled. As a civilian ... I have held for some time the belief that submarines are able to stay submerged only so long as they maintain active forward motion with motors running. And yet . . . you state that the "usual maneuver is to sit on bottom, motors off." By this do you mean that such submarines are stuck fast in the mud of the bottom or that submersion with motors off is possible regardless of the circumstances...
...India to a new war. Silently, without overt enthusiasm but also without complaint, India fell in line. It looked as though India's leaders would rally their followers to defend the one thing they have wanted to see ended for over two decades, Britain's Empire; to maintain something they themselves do not have, democracy. But last week Britain clumsily chipped the biggest jewel in her crown...
...maintain so far as possible the status of neutrals in war. this last is, probably, out of the question at the present time, for there are new to recognized neutral rights whatever; and since the world war we have made no serious attempts to establish such right...