Word: maintained
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...recovered from that abrupt reduction, - on the contrary, they have been still further diminished by occasional annual deficits in excess of annual surplusses. It is impossible for the Corporation to repeat that operation. The whole income of the University from invested funds and from tuition-fees is needed to maintain the present scale of expenditure for salaries, repairs and improvements, general expenses, and the various useful objects to which the incomes of special funds are devoted. Under these circumstances, in the absence of any single benefactor who desires to erect a suitable reading-room and stack, is it not time...
From the reports which have come from New Haven during the week past, it is very evident that Harvard will have to bestir herself in order to maintain the supremacy in debating next year. Yale men may or may not care much about debating. Probably the feeling there does not differ greatly from what it is here. But this we know full well, - that Yale men do care a great deal about being beaten, and that now that the graduates are fairly awake something will be done to improve Yale's chances of victory...
...advisability of admitting the cheap labor of foreign countries is much discussed. Phillips Brooks always believed that our country was free to all. On the other hand, many maintain that the protection of our industries demands the restriction of immigration...
There is every reason to expect an excellent contest, as both sides have been working hard, the Harvard men with a determination to maintain the record of unbroken victories in debate, the Yale representatives with the hope of reversing the tide of fortune...
...committee thought that to erect and maintain such a memorial would require $300,000, of which $150,000 would be expended in the erection of the building and the remainder invested to pay the running expenses of the house. Owing to the hard times, when the committee was appointed, no formal appeal for subscriptions was made. Nevertheless voluntary subscriptions to the amount of $80,000 were received. As the times have been improving very slowly the committee has not yet made its appeal, but will probably make it soon...