Word: supporting
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...Righteous Friend and Lover of men, the source of all beneficence. The position we claim for the Son must not be so much a metaphysical as a moral supremacy. The old creeds, if moral interpretation be given them, even the Athanasian Creed may be used for the support of a moral and social faith. Coming to the Confessions of the Reformation period, we must understand their watchword, "Faith" like St. Paul, as "Faith which worketh by love," and election as a call to service on behalf of mankind. Even the doctrines of the Council of Trent may be purified...
...since their aims and scope of work were technical, designed to provide the necessary pre-collegiate training of clergymen. This technical character of the schools, in spite of the fact that the narrow curriculum comprised the elements of liberal culture as then understood, could not alone permanently hold the support of the community...
...that the academies arose to take up the work which the grammar schools had failed to perform. The academies demonstrated, at the same time, the possibility of a secondary education adapted to the special needs and briefer educational careers of non-collegiate pupils of both sexes. Thus the enthusiastic support of our public high schools as we know them today was ultimately brought about during the years from 1826 to the present time. Although this country, through the state of Massachusetts, was very early committed to the maintenance of secondary schools supported partly or wholly by taxes, it took nearly...
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...
...debate with Holy Cross at Worcester on December 15, the Junior team will support the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the permanent retention of the Philippine Islands by the United States is desirable...