Word: function
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossibly be granted a dignified privacy in the chill seclusion of a Vault or behind a wire mesh, but they suffer correspondingly in that they are thus completely cut off from the reading world. After all, a book must necessarily cherish a yearning to perform its function of imparting its con tents. There is little satisfaction in social position per se if no one bothers to find out how it was attained...
More than 2500 students of the various Boston high and normal schools have purchased all the seats in Symphony Hall for December 10 to attend the University Glee Club's High School concert. The Club is giving this concert in an effort to extend its annual function as an educational organization and to give Boston high school students an opportunity to hear good music at little expense. Each seat, consequently, was sold at only 25 cents...
...Harvard Crimson has been a pretty well-behaved publication, as undergraduate journals go. In most years its news columns and its editorial comments have reflected a high standard of journalistic discrimination and common sense, and its editors have displayed a correct conception of a newspaper's function, which is to print news that is really news, and be quick about it. They have not found it necessary, for the most part, to trump up sensations in order to make the CRIMSON look like "a regular fellow" among newspapers...
With the conception that its rightful position is that of a mere gazette of University news the CRIMSON has little sympathy. It believes that it fulfills a more vital function--the function of presenting truthfully and in an interesting manner all the news of the University, and of expressing and guiding the opinion of the undergraduate body. There is a great difference between a newspaper and a gazette--possibly the difference between perpetual youth and premature age. And the CRIMSON, preferring the former, refuses to be a mere bulletin...
...What does the American public want ?" These fact-collectors are governed accordingly. If any big movement takes place, such as the French occupation of the Ruhr, the foreign correspondents are less concerned with fact-gathering than they are with construing the importance and probable effect of what occurs. The function of a correspondent is to write a factual narrative of events coupled with pertinent comment from others; in no sense should his despatches infringe on the sacred domain of the editorial writer. It is because of this fact that the European news in American journals is so often contradictory...