Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...However", intercollegiate contests have a tendency to expand and multiply into forms which your Committee does not approve. Such are intersectional championships and post season games. These are not necessary to sustain an interest in the sport and the motives are usually not really athletic. The policy of your Committee is to discourage any such contests...
...court could be approved. The Bishops declined to call the court. They allowed Bishop Brown to plead his case-to argue for half an hour that he had not had a fair trial, but his lawyer was not admitted. Then a vote was 91 to 11 to sustain the findings of the courts. Bishop Ethelbert Talbot of Bethlehem, Presiding Bishop, promptly summoned Bishop Brown to St. Paul's church three days later to hear his sentence and be deposed. Bishop Brown went to a federal court and secured an order for Bishop Talbot to show cause why he should...
...first to attempt to impose a reduction in the wages of their workers. . . . Reduction in wages are not proposed and are not being forced upon the workers in other industries. . . . Existing economic facts make their position unjustifiable and indefensible. . . . How can the workers in the textile industry sustain a reduced purchasing power through the imposition of a substantial reduction in wages and at the same time maintain and enjoy a standard of living commensurate with American citizenship? . . . The reprehensible feature of it is that it is a forced reduction in wages. The workers have not been consulted regarding acceptance...
When a team has brought unexpected honor to Harvard, when it has shown by its consistent energy that it is willing to sustain that honor, then it at least deserves a trial by jury, a serious reconsideration. Such is the new status of Harvard lacrosse...
...instance, in the election of a professor, 'the question is discussed as to whether he is really the strongest man that can be obtained from any point in America or Europe; for President Lowell, believing that Harvard must sustain its primacy, is never content with any teachers less than the very best, and is insistent on waiting several years rather than load the staff for a generation with good but not exceptional men. He has thus brought department after department up to the highest standard, as has been shown in the report of the President of Miami College...