Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Function of Reason...
Entitled "The Function of Reason" Professor Whitehead's course is concerned with the theory of knowledge. He examines the history of thought and endeavors to point out the fallacies of reasoning that have characterized the thinking processes dominant in the different centuries. Men concentrating in science and interested in inquiring critically into the past and contemporary moves of scientific thought will find the course enlightening...
...Treasury at Washington, gradually becoming a more & more important cog in that Department's machinery, When Supervising Architect Oscar Wenderoth resigned in 1915, Cog Wetmore agreed to take over his job "temporarily." Through Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and the first hectic year of Roosevelt II he continued to function "temporarily." Because he was not an architect, he would not allow his title to be other than Acting Supervising Architect and, as such, his name appears on some 2,000 Federal cornerstones...
...barge lines on its waterways; it ran steamship lines; it sold water from its irrigation projects; it sold surplus war materials; it speculated in cotton and grains. Yet most of these government excursions into private enterprise were pretty clearly either emergency measures or operations incidental to some other Federal function...
...precedent was also set last year of allowing other class officers to be elected to positions on the Class Committee. This committee does not really begin to function until after leaving College and many men holding other officers might be just the type needed to carry on class office in later years...