Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left leaderless when President Roosevelt turned all his energies to the NRA crisis, Congress last week gave a prime demonstration of its inability to function as an independent branch of the U. S. Government...
This, we submit, is just as it should be. Certainly, it is not the least important function of a university to preserve for itself and its students an attitude of mind that is above partisanship and eager to acclaim human worth wherever found. American can be proud that its oldest university is one that never sidesteps this duty...
...vital points may be deduced from the Tory tactics of the Physics Department. First, that Harvard is trading upon its tradition in order to progress without nurturing it; second, that the teaching function of the tutors in the field of the sciences is consciously put into the hands of rabid specialists...
...thesis is part and parcel of the other; if a firm and longsighted tradition of building students into graduate workers, graduate workers into scientists, was followed through its broader cultural implications, the teaching morals and the tutorial function in the Physics Department would become an inspiration instead of a vulgar failure...
Although the "brain-trust" has been taking a political beating of late, the need of specialized authorities in our governmental agencies remains more evident than ever. In no other way can a permanent, non-partisan personnel be created which will function with the efficacy and morale of the British civil service. --Boston Herald...