Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the Yale athletes toward the engagement of a professional trainer at the very moment of our discomfiture is another incentive to sustain our past eminence in general athletics. Not that we feel any great need of new vigor, but we know that the newly adopted regime will inevitably make itself felt before long, unless we have pride and perseverance enough of our own to fight against all obstacles. Hitherto Columbia has always been our recognized rival for the cup, and Yale has exhibited a singular indifference to this branch of sports. Now the advent of a new opponent...
...power, although it has never urged the matter. We have not spoken in complaint of the conduct of the Glee Club, nor of the Sodality, but because we hope in the future to enjoy more of their music, and show how fully we would sustain them...
...York Times says of the recent 6 to 4 vote at Dartmouth, sustaining President Bartlett : "The position of the six trustees who sustain him is made curiously inconsistent by the fact that, after the adoption of the resolution concerning the president, another resolution `indorsing' the faculty in precisely the same terms was introduced and carried unanimously. But in the whole faculty there are only three who are not opposed to the president, so the six trustees stand in the singular position of men who look on at a fight and espouse both sides. The responsibility for the future...
...feel that there exists at present a lamentable lack of interest in this kind of sport previously so popular and commendable. With '79 and '80 our former champions left college, and since their departure no sufficient revival of interest has taken place to bring out new representatives who will sustain Harvard's former prestige and note. We hope that the spirit of our rowing men may be awakened in this respect and that renewed attention may be paid to this branch of aquatics...
...Sargent began his lecture yesterday by stating that the principal elements that sustain life are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, and that various kinds of food possessed these qualities in different degrees. The world's greatest scientists have devoted themselves to classifying foods according to their chemical compounds and effects on the human body. But no table of nutritives can be accurate in its application, as the nervous and muscular tissues are not the same...