Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...intercollegiate tournaments Harvard has won three successive victories-the best score of any of the colleges, but several of last year's men are no longer available, and in order to maintain the good record some hard work must be done by the club this fall...
...commodities whose costs of production constantly change be kept at a fixed ratio? The very treaty formed to maintain a ratio might be broken by war. Can our opponents stand sponsors for the peace of Europe? Such a danger as this, when at best the advantages of bimetallism are problematical, make it clear that our present evils must be very great to justify such a leap in the dark. But that no such evils exist is proved by the immense economic prosperity of the past thirty years and what business troubles there are have been...
...denying that the negative were urging higher prices; they merely wished steadier prices. The question was not of the relative merits of bimetallism and gold monometallism, but was solely as to whether the United States should at once and definitively adopt the single gold standard. This action, he maintained, would not restore but would destroy confidence, because it would be a surprise and would maintain the ills at present existing. The policy of the country for twenty years has been steadily tending toward international bimetallism. To change this policy would cause an entire overturn in politics and finance, inevitably leading...
...time for the intercollegiate and junior tournaments draws near, the important question arises whether the University will be able to maintain its unbroken record of victories. Two of the three men who composed last year's intercollegiate team have graduated, and, according to the rules, none of the team which won the junior tournament last year is eligible for that contest again. It is evident then that any fencer in the University, whether a member of the Fencing Club or not, has an excellent chance to make one of the teams this year. As a large number of candidates...
...subject as follows: "My hope is that self-respect or fear will make the offence almost impossible; for whoever cheats will know that he cheats, and will cheat with his eyes open to the result of detection: and my ultimate hope is a higher right for Harvard College to maintain that she stands for truth...