Word: function
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main arguments, each vehemently supported, emerged from the confusion of accusations and defenses. On one side, it was reasoned that a university which includes members of many different religions should not officially embrace one to the exclusion of others; and some held further that it was not within the function of the contemporary Harvard to take any formal stand whatsoever concerning religion. The opponents of this view contended that commitment to religion necessitated the choosing of one, that just as a church can not be treated as a "cafeteria," as one professor described it, neither can Harvard be religious, abstractly...
...interpersonal relationship" between the hypnotist and the subject. In everyday life, most individuals have experiences of a trance-like nature. Such experiences as falling asleep in a lecture, getting totally absorbed in a book, or sleep-walking occur quite frequently. In hypnosis "the individual gets permission to function at this level," and he is more able to tolerate logical inconsistencies than he would be in the waking state...
...were clergymen of many denominations. All the Christian missionaries in the territory knew what might be at stake. There are only about 9,000 white missionaries in Africa (pop. 233,775,000). This means that native converts must carry the main burden of spreading Christianity, and they cannot function effectively if native courts can punish them for giving religious advice to other natives...
Council members had no clear idea as to the exact function of the new group. One said it would be "a less humorous but more substantial version of the Confidential Guide...
...whole business can be summed up and righted by one revolutionary step: the schools must return at once to their proper function -the intellectual process...