Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meaning of an examination is not a final test of a man's knowledge, but rather a single hurdle in the race of educational experience. To deny a man access to a paper which will help him plan his study for the next barrier is an abdication of the function of teaching...
...Hutchins aims to resurrect the American university from the depths of its degradation and confusion. He points out that the objective of education should be to prepare the student for intelligent action. With this as his central theme he clarifies the proper function of a university in the scheme of a man's whole education. A university is equipped only to pursue the fundamental truths and no more--to attempt anything else is to cripple its prime purpose. Taking wisdom as the result of both intellectual training and experience, Dr. Hutchins insists, contrary to the existing curricula of most colleges...
...Music Department is apparently ready and eager to teach music: this is cannot do with any conspicuous degree of success while it is struggling to function with inadequate facilities, and an under-manned personnel. The panacca for these ailments is, of course, more money. The problem of who is to get what share of tercentenary spoils is a ticklish one: there are certain crying needs which cannot be overlooked, and the Music Department's is one of them...
Overanxiety for children, apart from actual physical impediments to childbirth, is a great cause of childlessness, declared Director Henry Farnham Perkins of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont. In the Eugenical News he cited this evidence: "The relation of the endocrine secretions to the reproductive functions is beginning to be understood by biochemists and physiologists. It is known that a very delicate acid-base equilibrium is essential for conception. This equilibrium is very easily upset, and nothing seems to affect it more quickly and decisively than psychological disturbances. . . . The thyroid gland is especially prompt in its reaction to psychological stimuli...
Governor Landon, I believe, is an able administrator. He ha manifested courage and sincerity, especially in his message to the Cloveland Convention. He can be relied upon to put our financial house in order, to permit Congress to function without subservience, to respect the position and opinions of the Supreme Court, to protect the Civil Service, and to promote social legislation as rapidly as the government is prepared to administer...