Word: functions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christian Ministry is not at all the function of a few, but is the appointed work of all men, ordained or unordained. Before a man enters this, or other professions he must first recognize his own qualities and powers, and the needs of the community and generation in which he lives. He should also consider the questions 1, of earning a living. 2. Can his own life be best developed in this profession. 3. Will it do good to his fellow men. The great principle which underlies every profession must be considered in connection with the daily routine work. That...
...different now-a-days. It is now the necessity of not keeping away the children of religious parents; the propriety of making the students get up early; the utility of a daily roll-call; or even the satisfaction of seeing the students gathered all in one room. The function of chapel is no longer devotional; neither the college authorities nor the students look at it in that light. There is no feeling in the community that makes public prayer an indispensable form of beginning work; there is no feeling in the students that it is a religious act to attend...
...criticism is utterly erroneous. Critical ability is not merely the ability to "tear down an artistic piece of work;" it is the ability to see what is good and true and lasting in it. Undoubtedly, fault-finding will to some extent attend this process, but the first and best function of criticism is to recognize merits not defects. It surely cannot be denied that the selective power developed by practice in criticism is of the highest value in the subsequent development of the creative power: a writer who cannot distinguish the good from the bad in other writers, will scarcely...
...limit of time is set within which the overseers must exercise their right of revision, or else forfeit it. No one concluding a contract with the corporation would dream of making the overseers a party to the contract. Their powers have been somewhat extended in practice, but their main function at present is to give their consent a matter of form-to the nominations of instructors, and to hold long and interesting debates on questions proposed by the president; for are they not, as one of their members has proudly called them, the foremost debating society in the land...
...price of board is so to speak a function of two variables; the quality of board and the number of boarders. This latter determines the price much more effectually than the former, but it is itself regulated by the former. The great question, which the present steward has solved so successfully, is how to satisfy the great number of men who join the association every September, so that they will remain throughout the year. In order to accomplish this end a high standard of board must be firmly maintained. In doing this, however, care must be taken not to make...