Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...readers, the faculty of Princeton do not tolerate any societies but these two, and to this fact is owing a large part of their popularity and usefulness. Besides this, the yearly contests between the best debaters of the two societies, as well as the contests in oratory, sustain interest to a high pitch...
...profession if a course could be established which would give men the same help that the moot courts of the Law School give students in law. While Harvard is in the midst of such sweeping reforms in her requirements, why can she not be the first to establish and sustain such a course...
...have touched upon this subject, not so much to sustain my opinion upon the relative expenses of the Harvard and Yale crews, which is, after all, of no very great importance, but in order to dispel an apparently prevalent opinion, that the money put down in the treasurer's reports as paid out, represents the actual running expenses for the year. It is this unfounded opinion, I feel confident, that has caused much of the misapprehension, and misunderstanding concerning the crew...
...official language of the university and the propriety of printing the same in English. Mr. Clark, the president of the university, and Messrs. Peabody, Parker and Saltonstall were appointed a committee to consider and report on the whole subject of the college degrees. The board refused to sustain a motion that the seat of Judge Endicott, in the board had been vacated by his acceptance of his election as a member of the corporation...
...light lunch provided from the class fund. After the class committee was elected it was moved to add to the class day officers the photographic committee. The election of photographer then came up and after considerable discussion James Notman of Boston was elected. It was voted to sustain the general committee on torchlight procession in their action in regard to uniforms, and to thank the chairman for his services. The meeting then adjoined at 12.50, after cheering for '85, and the marshals of the class...