Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible, Harvard's intramural athletic program will function in full force this summer, according to present plans...
...title, the Peabody is a museum. But it holds its function to be something more valuable than a picturesque exhibition of anthropological material. The ground-work of collection has been well laid, a great mass of material is in its keeping, but the Peabody is now in a transitional period designed to transform what was fundamentally an exhibition hall into a means for training students in the science of anthropology. In this conection, the Department of Anthropology is virtually inseparable from the Museum, for each moves in parallel courses, and each shares their personnel and resources. Materials for the study...
...area zones, to learn all their problems and potentialities; a bi-weekly bulletin listing hundreds of needed war items; a new sense that the regional WPB office was really empowered to by-pass Washington. Said one Grand Havener: "You fellows have given us the clearest understanding yet of the function of WPB and how it can help...
...House system, radically altered by the accelerated program and the surrendering of the ancient Yard to the armed forces, the unity of the newcomers must not be destroyed. Now that all undergraduates will live in the Houses, there is the dangerous possibility that in an effort to enlarge their function as centers of athletic and social life, Harvard will become a body of seven small, disconnected units. Graduating unromantically in three groups annually and participating in House activities with a limited number of their own classmates, students will tend to become members of a House rather than part...
...Fogg where is treasured a secret as valuable as any the military might be keeping, they no longer like to discuss with outsiders the closer-to-home possibilities of the war. But war has come to The Fogg Art Museum, making itself felt in every department and function. Any conception the undergraduate might have of the "ivory tower" on Quincy Street would be shattered if he knew of the realistic defense measures taken by Director Edward W. Forbes and his staff...