Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Legitimate U.S. correspondence schools belong to the National Home Study Council (1420 New York Ave., N.W., Washington 5, D.C.), whose 58 members maintain scrupulous standards, enroll 1,000,000 students yearly...
Both sides, however, maintain enough votes to prevent the other from achieving the necessary two-thirds vote. The logical and most diplomatic action for the U.S. would be to switch its support to the compromise candidacy of Yugoslavia, an acceptable eastern European country. We should also support the motion of eight non-communist nations for the enlargement of the Security Council from eleven to eighteen members, thus preventing the recurrence of such a contest and reffecting the growth of the U.N. during the last fourteen years...
...decided to modify the project considerably from the original arrangement of arbitrarily assigned quarters of work and vacation. Last July, James H. Case, President of Bard, announced that a new schedule had been adopted for the current academic year. Instead of using a pure four quarter program, Bard will maintain its two fifteen-week semesters, and add two half-semesters, one in the summer and one in the winter...
Student Backgrounds Present Dilemma Faced with a huge stack of applications, and subject to intense pressures from within the College, the Dean of Admissions must maintain a host of balances. Perhaps the most controversial balance is that between students with superior academic preparation, and the less prepared, but no less brilliant "diamonds-in-the-rough" students whose pre-college background has failed to provide an atmosphere of learning...
...Harvard is to maintain its position as national leader in defense of educational freedom, it is its job to organize a campaign which will unite the universities of the country in a vigorous and concerted campaign. This "concert" of institutions advocated by Dean Elder is only the first step in the program of lobbying and publicity which will be necessary to effect repeal of the oath...