Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Initial function in the regular "opening days" series of receptions following the table-hopping marathon of registration and the brain-curdling exemption and placement examinations, will be in the form of oral crystal-gazing by members of the University's Administration and Faculty, in an effort to give new students some idea of what their future at Harvard will be like. Provost Buck and Bender head a list of speakers that will include C. Crane Brinton, professor of History, and Chairman of the Society of Fellows, and Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...Army must not be confused with bourgeois armies, which are really repressive. Explained Yudin: "In capitalist states the army is used for home oppression. It has an introvert function. But in the Soviet Union this introvert function is no longer necessary, as the enemies of the proletariat have been liquidated here. So in the Soviet Union the army has a purely extrovert function...
With only a skeleton staff promising to be on hand, the Council has formulated a "carry on" policy, under which they will attempt to deal only with specific problems as they arise. O'Donnell said, however, that the General Education Committee would continue to function...
...sleeveless jumper, was soon supervising in wards and teaching procedure in lecture halls. His team would stay five or six weeks, the physiotherapists longer if necessary. Treatment for the disease, whose mysteries remain largely unsolved: Sister Kenny's hot packs to relieve pain and muscle training to restore function; occasional non-specified drugs, plenty of rest...
...move in the right direction has been made by Lowell House, whose common room remains open for guests until midnight on Saturdays. The ideal extension of this use of common rooms to all Houses and on all nights of the week would rob the rooms of their primordial function as a center for gregarious bachelors. But a rotating system, with the common rooms of each of the seven Houses open in turn until midnight, would provide a satisfactory solution from all angles. From the point of view of co-education, there can be no qualms concerning this proposal. Exactly such...