Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...trial eights of the University crew squad were sent upstream yesterday to the Brighton bridge in short stretches and back to the boathouse at a fast pace. Owing to the numerous changes in the orders the work was ragged and the boats did not maintain an even keel. Morgan's crew, rowing a 27 stroke, spaced poorly, and the men failed to get all the power out of the stroke, the starboard side particularly being uneven. Ball's crew caught the water well together, but were inclined to rush their slides. Amberg's work at 7 was very creditable...
...most interesting of the other changes suggested are the innovations embodied in article nine, which authorize the executive committee at discretion to maintain an office in Boston, as near as possible to those of Harvard College, to serve as a bureau of information for the benefit of all members of the Association and officers of the University. An official to take charge may be employed, who also may be the secretary and must be a member of the Association. The committee is likewise empowered to solicit subscriptions for and publish and alumni periodical, to prepare and publish a list...
Several new scholarships have been established, and the fund of $75,000, needed to obtain from Mr. Carnegie a library which he has promised, and to maintain it without strain on the college, has been raised through the efforts of the alumnae. A considerable sum, however, is still needed for furnishing...
...ownership is unnecessary, must inevitably be unprofitable, and will be positively injurious to the city. Municipal ownership is unnecessary since what it claims to do can be better accomplished in another way. We admit that there are some evils in the street railway system in New York, but we maintain that those which can be removed at all can be quickly and permanently abolished by strict regulation...
...will maintain a basin 8 miles long, and will affect the level of the water as far as the dam at Watertown. There will be 17 1-2 miles of shore-line, nearly all of which will be devoted to park purposes, the land having been purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the City of Cambridge. The level of the basin will be about 2 feet below the present mean high tide level. Part of the engineering scheme for the construction of the dam provides for a temporary shut-off which will establish the level of the basin...