Word: functions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...various departments of instruction announced in the elective pamphlet, the maze through which the man of "no particular bent of soul" must wander becomes denser and more labyrinthine. But this is one of the disadvantages that attends every growth of what modern sociologists term "the diversification of function." The choice which the individual must make be comes modified and motivated by the introduction of new fields that are opened to him. A recognition of this fact is forced on every man as he sits down to make out his electives for the ensuing year. Moreover it is plain that with...
...smuggle exercises of this character into instruction given in the name of arithmetic, is an abuse. By it has has been created a bastard arithmetic which fails to perform the true function of that study in our public schools - namely, to produce accuracy and a reasonable degree of facility in numerical operations, while wasting the time of the pupils, perplexing their minds, worrying their tempers, rasping their nerves, and, in case of total or partial failure, unnecessarily and unrighteously shocking and impairing their self-respect and scholarly ambition...
...from one to three belated comers made their way across the hall, to the annoyance of all present, and especially to the lecturer himself. Worse still, the offenders, with the exception of a few freshmen, were not studends, but representatives of that numerous Cambridge public who deem it the function of the university to provide entertainment for their winter evenings. One would suppose that mere gratitude would make them heedful of the comfort of the members of that university of whose public lectures they are so fond. But no; they have had their priveleges so long that they have forgotten...
Prof. B. O. Peirce has recently published a book entitled, "Elements of the Theory of the Newtonian Potential Function...
ENGLISH. 1. A critical estimate of Lord Macaulay's writings. 2. The relation of Wordsworth's poems to his life. 3. The Fantastic Element in Hawthorne's characters and plots. 4. What is the Function of Literature in Modern Life...