Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gains more from his University course if he spends his time on one department of study, than by "spreading" himself over a variety of subjects. And even here it is gradually getting to be acknowledged that a thorough education is better than a superficial one. Now, no one will maintain that a thorough education can be gained by electing one or two courses in each department that appears on the scheme. Yet how often this is done! How many men are there who choose their studies for the Sophomore year without the slightest thought of what they are going...
...fortunate enough to belong to a distinguished family. Family pride is one of the best things in the world. There is nothing like it for keeping up a strong feeling of self-respect. If your name is a great one, you feel that it is your duty to maintain its credit. If it is not great, you feel it is your duty to make it so, or at any rate to prevent it from slipping into absolute obscurity. And I have very little respect for a man who has not a real and ardent love for the name he bears...
...country where men are growing more and more equal every day of their lives. We are not born to great fortunes and to names which of themselves carry men through the world. Each of us must make his own way for himself; and if he wishes to maintain the honor of his name, and the honor of the second name that old Harvard gives us leave to bear, he must work to do it. He must be something. He must do something, and he must do it with all his might...
...that take place every day in University; the programme of which may be found in the tabular view, the prizes of which are such worthless things as high marks, deturs, etc. Since, however, the attainment of any excellence in this latter kind of exercise is not (as some falsely maintain) the chief reason for which we come to college, but an entirely secondary matter, it is quite natural that they should be passed over as unworthy of attention. The audience, too, on Jarvis Field is generally large and enthusiastic, and encourages the weary limbs of the contestants by frequent applause...
...majority that basis of union. However productive of friendship the action of the Pi Eta was, there was yet a principle, in accordance with which non-society and society men directed their efforts. That principle was the mutual recognition of each other's rights, and the determination to maintain them...