Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...speech was an arraignment of the capitalist class for its mismanagement of society. The cave man, he said, had the crudest implements and lived under constant danger from enemies yet could get enough food to maintain himself without working all the time. The modern man, however, removed from hostile environment in a state of society which by the aid of machinery enormously multiplies production, cannot, even by working incessantly, get enough to eat, and must live in a state of wretchedness which no cave man ever knew. Ten million people in the United States are unable to obtain enough food...
...question for debate, submitted by the Seniors, is: "Resolved, That if it were possible a reasonable property qualification for the exercise of the municipal franchise in the United States would be desirable." In this debate the Senior team, which will maintain the affirmative, will speak in the following order: J. W. Plaisted, A. N. Holcombe, J. W. Appel. In the rebuttals, however, Appel will speak second, and Holcombe last. R. L. Hale has been appointed alternate. The order of the Junior speakers, who have chosen to support the negative, is: R. E. Gish, A. B. Church, A. H. Elder...
...progressive as they seem. If the present generations persist in following the methods of their fathers, the west will sink to where it cannot rise. In the east there is a balance held between material progress and spiritual progress, and it would be the saving of the west to maintain a like balance...
...Christian Association holds weekly class devotional meetings, and larger general meetings addressed by outside speakers; organizes classes in Bible study and missions; maintain a small library; fills requests for speakers from preparatory schools, city Y. M. C. A.'s, and philanthropic institutions; ends annual delegations to the Northfield Conference, and raises $800 a year towards the support of E. C. Carter '00 in India...
About a year ago the Committee was called upon to face a new situation. It is a futile waste of time to discuss now the wisdom of building the Stadium. Few, at least of the undergraduates, would maintain that the gift of the class of '79 should have been refused by the Committee, not to say the Corporation, on account of the additional expense it has entailed. Thanks to this expense, and to the feeling of the Committee that one of its first duties is to pay its debts as rapidly as is well possible, our surplus has practically disappeared...