Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Royce's Symphonic Study showed high aims, an elevated style of some complexity, many episodes of compelling beauty, but as a whole it seems as if the composer had set himself a difficult problem to maintain the thread of continuity without the aid of a closer adherence to conventional form. In substance, however, this work is so interesting as to demand another hearing before attempting a more authoritative opinion. In the first movement of Mr. Clapp's quintet we feel at once the solidity and breadth of structure, although the treatment of the strings is occasionally at variance with traditional...
...most promising development during the last decade has been the increased interest and support of the graduates; they will be needed in the near future. The growth of the University is threatened, and with decreased enrolment their financial support may be necessary to maintain the standards of scholarship. President Eliot in closing congratulated his successor on "the sure growth of the influence of the University throughout the land, not only to foster art, literature and science, but also free institutions in which will lie the power and strength of our country...
...board of trustees in charge of the administration of the endowment fund would be free to maintain churches of several denominations and, from its central location, could place in each community just such churches as were best suited to its needs. There are several organizations now in existence which are tending in this direction, and a number of denominations maintain national bureaus from which their work is directed...
When the Harvard Dining Association was in the throes of despair last winter in its attempts to maintain a respectably large membership and at the same time keep down the price of the general board, the Corporation decided to lend its aid. A fixed guaranty of four dollars was finally decided upon and the new scheme of allowances for absences and the establishing of table for transients seemed at the time to warrant the guaranty. After the guaranty was removed, however, the boarders were left to the tender mercies of the Association and the Corporation withdrew...
...perhaps more than any other educational institution needs to keep abreast of the times. With its unsurpassed equipment in the hands of the present dean, whose age places him with the younger generation of doctors, unhampered by traditions of an older teaching, the Medical School should be able to maintain a place in the front rank of modern medical science and develop to the utmost its splendid endowment...