Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...alternative, then, is to employ certain specialists at certain times or to maintain a staff of coaches the year round whose dominant characteristic is their mediocrity. Mediocrity is implied if only for the reason that the cost of maintaining permanently a group of men such as Haughton, Tad Jones, et al, would be altogether prohibitive--assuming they could be induced to devote all their time to athletics at any price...
...Bliss Perry spoke of the importance of voluntary Chapel in reference to college morale, saying that if offers an opportunity for "bringing a larger horizon into view" for a short time every day. "By the mere silent example of doing it," he said, "I hope you will help to maintain the fine old tradition of attending voluntary Chapel...
Whether we accept the "League of Nations" or not, we must maintain the trust we have won. For after all, the future peace of the world depends primarily on the conference existing between states. No pact however perfect can eliminate war if mutual distrust is engendered. If the motives of our action in the Great War were upheld to future generations as examples to follow in all foreign dealings, the world would become educated in the difference between international right and wrong...
...recent meeting in New York discussed informally an intercollegiate alliance between Cornell, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Syracuse, and possibly Columbia, based upon the Yale, Princeton, Harvard rapprochement. The Times article further suggests that the smaller colleges feel the need of such a union to maintain a balance of power against the Big Three, whose mutual reconstruction policy, they believe to contain the element of exclusiveness toward other universities...
...advantage, disadvantage, and misunderstanding. Unification of policies will result in the smoothness which occurs when each college is working toward a common end in complete accord. With the universities of this part of the country united in two or three big alliances it will be possible to set and maintain a standard of sports otherwise impossible and thereby a truer spirit of athletics will be fostered...