Word: functions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deemed to be the proper function of the library to furnish books for such protracted...
...address to the students at the last College Conference meeting, President Eliot described the proper function of a university to be "to teach its students to lead," as opposed to a military school which teaches rather obedience. Let us accept this definition, and try to ascertain the proper attitude of a university graduate toward politics. In the first place, if he is to lead public opinion he must himself have firm-opinions, which should be arrived at by careful, sincere and, if need be, "independent" thinking; and in the second place he should consider it to be rather his duty...
...free rider travels at the expense of the public. It is therefore as much a public question as taxation. Judge Cooley discussed this point at considerable length. He pronounced the system of free transportation akin to the spoils system in politics, and declared that the principle that a public function is a public trust must govern the management of railroads...
...people was formed. In this the present German constitution received its inception. After the Austrian war the Reichstag was established. This body is elected by the people and represents them, while the Bundesrath represents the governments of the different states. The Reichstag is a single chamber, and its main function is to discuss and sanction. The Bundesrath can veto any legislation of the Reichstag, and its vetoes are incontestable. In this is found the first obstacle to constitutional government in Germany. Under the present government a responsible ministry is an impossibility, which forms another obstacle. A third is found...
...against the system of competitive examinations which appeared in the Nineteenth Century. This protest was signed by some of the most distinguished educators of the English universities and schools; all of the signatures covered fourteen pages of the review. The protest asserts that the examination has lost its true function as the servant of education; that under the competitive system the ideal conception of scholarship has so degenerated that the examination is of more importance by the student than education...