Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are sound objections to "compulsory worship" in universities, which should be apparent to the university authorities from their own point of view. Their purpose is to maintain a religious interest in those who are professing Christians or who are inclined to become Christians, and to excite such an interest in those who are inclined to avoid religious influences. What effect does compulsion have upon the several classes of persons to whom it is applied? Does it not work more harm than good? So far as members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although...
...Agassiz, in his recent report to the president and fellows, reports that "the unexpected demand for instruction is in excess of our accommodation. . . . It will be absolutely essential, in order to maintain the unity of organization on which so much care and money have been expended, to provide additional quarters for the accommodation of the increasing number of students, and the natural demands for expansion in the specialties of each department. At the present moment an additional section of the museum would barely meet our requirements." We understand that work will commence on this another season. Nor is the interest...
...Harvard men; for though Harvard stands by far the leader in the batting and almost, if not quite, a leader in the fielding averages; though she possesses the best individual players in the league, she did not win the championship which ought to have been hers. We shall always maintain that Harvard had the best nine in the league of 1886, and that nothing but a series of accidents lost her the championship; in support of this view the figures now published need only be referred to, and the general playing of the nine last year need only be recalled...
...higher course of training than that afforded by the elementary courses in elocution, to recognize and restore the club to its old position. What the club needs is an infusion of new blood into its veins, new members who will take a live interest in its success, and maintain its old reputation for activity A meeting of the old members should be called at once, a reorganization should be effected, and new members interested in dramatic study, should be admitted to membership. If this is done we are confident of a restoration of the interest and activity; that were once...
...into athletic competition, there is not aroused such an emulation that there is no possibility of success against the crimson in any branch of athletics. It is a burning shame that when Harvard might so easily hold the field unrivalled, she is forced to make such desperate efforts to maintain herself as first...