Word: functions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regime also holds the power to veto assignments of bishops to particular cities. In an outrageous case, the Communists rejected 20 candidates for Archbishop of Wroclaw before accepting the supposedly "safe" Henryk Gulbinowicz. Jokes Minister Kakol: "The church knows the way we function, so the simplest thing would be for them to put their favorite candidate in last place...
While the review is underway, however, the assembly will function with ad hoc "provisional recognition" from Harvard, which allows it to use campus facilities but not to use the names "Harvard" or "Radcliffe" in connection with any of its functions...
Some of the criticism leveled at the assembly may stem from a certain lack of focus in assembly activities. The projects undertaken this year ranged from poll-taking--a function many assembly members say helped to establish the assembly's credibility in the eyes of administrators--to social directing. Many of the assembly's activities over the year have been directed toward prying open the governing structure of the University. The assembly has sponsored open meetings with President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies...
Their central idea is the truth that a university has a "special mission" in the discovery and transmission of knowledge. A "special mission" is not a specialized function, one among others, as if a university were like a business corporation or a labor union. It is a mission special to itself to challenge the assumptions of our daily routine, including the assumptions that make possible specializations in society and even in the university. To challenge is to rethink, and rethinking requires mastery of the traditions of thought...
...Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, have felt the affects of the drop sooner and more intensely than others. Eckehard Simon, chairman of the German Department, explains that he and Rosovsky worked together this year to adjust the Germanic curriculum so that the graduate department can continue to function with only three students. Under one plan, the entire program would shift to the undergraduate level with separate section meetings once a week for the graduate students...