Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to maintain an even price throughout the following six leaders have been appointed. Each one will wear a Ded badge on his book. O. W. Richardson 2L., H. B. Clark '01, H. S. Knowles '02, W. G. Clerk '01, C. J. Swan '01, E. W. Mills...
...votes for a platform, and that the great mass of Americans vote for parties. He then goes on to insist that, contrary to de Tocqueville and Mr. Bryce, actual parties with definite underlying principles do exist. His opinion is contained in the following extract: "Further, I maintain that a fair-minded examination of the present aspect of our two great parties leads to the conclusion that they still represent with reasonable consistency, the two great sets of interests, and the two great types of character, which in modern self-governing communities have usually lain at the basis of party system...
Ashley D.Leavitt, Yale's second speaker, said: "In legislating for Porto Rico, Congress is not limited by constitutional provision for uniformity of duties, etc. This we maintain on the ground that Porto Rico is not a part of the United States as regards the constitution, and that Congress has the power to legislate for it in this condition. That conquest did not make Porto Rico a part of the United States is clear from the decision of the court in Fleming vs. Page (9 Howard). The court said in regard to Tampica, a conquest by the United States...
...meeting in Chicago of the leading universities of the country called by the University of California, it was decided to unite in a permanent organization in order to establish and maintain uniform standards for the various graduate degrees. President Eliot acted as chairman of the convention...
...boat will be able to maintain a much higher rate of speed than the Frank Thomson, and will not settle at the stern as the old launch did when going at full speed. Her dimensions are as follows: Length over all, 51 feet; length on water line, 50 feet; freeboard, three feet and a half; draught, 3 feet...