Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truth. I would ask off-center questions, and he would respond with interesting and new answers. Maybe that was why I liked talking to professors on the phone for a story when no one else did. We both considered journalism as a way of mutual indulgence in a creative function...
...Semitic collection in 1889. In 1902. a naturalized banker named Jacob Schiff put up the money for the museum, which opened in 1903. I wish I could have heard the negotiations between the Near Eastern Languages Department and the Center's founders over the building's change in function...
...intervals to discuss matters of common interest. We realize from our own experience that such committees consume a great deal of time and energy and divert both their student and faculty members from their personal academic concerns. But we would also urge that they can perform a very important function in dissolving mistrust, building mutual understanding, and providing students with avenues of meaningful participation in the life of the departments and the Faculty as a whole...
...requirements. In recent years, as we noted earlier, the departmental audits conducted by the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee have produced many useful proposals which were subsequently adopted by the departments. On occasion, departmental organizations of undergraduate concentrators or groups of concentrators in the Houses have performed a somewhat similar function...
...students have provoked some serious discussion in the faculty that has resulted in general agreement on different and more satisfactory ways of doing things. On the whole, the results have been beneficial to both students and faculty. At the very least, there is an additional educational function: most of the graduate students will be faculty themselves soon, and many are Teaching Fellows now, and they are starting to learn how a department works...