Word: retaining
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Furthermore unless the school has the adequate financial support of the community, it can do nothing well; it cannot provide suitable buildings and equipment; it cannot secure and retain teachers who possess scholarship, cultivation, and teaching power commensurate with the work they have to do; it cannot provide the skilled supervision needed to maintain the school buildings and their equipment in a satisfactory condition, and the teaching force at a high level of efficiency...
Photography is a means of preserving and renewing visual images, just as writing is a means of preserving and renewing thoughts. Photography is an artificial extension of memory, and what memory does for experience--enabling us to retain it--photography may do for memory itself, by helping us to refresh the mental images we have there, which naturally are always fading away. Photography also enables us to get visual ideas of many things we have never seen because they are at a distance; and it will probably enable men in future to have correct visual images of things that will...
...other of the old. Each class will be subdivided into two teams which will fence twice a month for a cup, which will be held until the next meeting. At the end of the year the man who has made the best individual score in each class will retain the cup permanently. It is hoped that all men interested in fencing will come out and try for the team...
...trial last night was a formal debate on the question: "Resolved, That the United States should retain the Philippine Islands permanently." The six men retained from the second trial were divided into two teams. W. Catchings '01, P. E. Fitzpatrick '02 and M. Seasongood 1L. supported the affirmative and R. C. Bruce '02, H. P. Chandler '01 and C. P. McCarthy supported the negative, but, as McCarthy was taken sick on Thursday, Bruce and Chandler divided his work between them...
Professor Lowell compared the methods of filling higher offices in this country and in England and said in part: Places of importance cannot always be filled by competitive examinations and it is in filling these positions that England far surpasses us. There experts are selected who retain their positions permanently irrespective of party. Wherever the position requires the formulating of a policy, there is a lay politician but all the real work is done by the expert. In this country experts are employed only on the Bench and in the army and navy, and this is why our higher political...