Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inaugurate and supervise Freshman activities during the Summer term, a Freshman Dormitory Committee has been appointed and has begun to function under the guidance of its faculty deviser, John W. Wlison '44. The committee of 14 Freshmen is intended to activities and agency between the faculty and the student body buy handling complaints and suggestions, and the committee, according to Ellison, invites suggestion...
...building up the curative aspects of the charter, the United Nations in time might be able to alter a world environment which, unaltered, would not permit any world organization to function effectively. Said one of the U.S. delegation's hopeful consultants...
...Ship, Old Hands. The warship Conway was one of the last of England's "wooden walls." Her antiquity was a planned part of her function as a training ship. Conway boys were meant to learn seamanship without the help of modern conveniences, and the heavy old cannon that still glowered through the square gun ports were part of a boy's lessons in naval history. To the greenhorn the Conway also looked grimly bare - until he discovered that in exactly ten minutes her crew could let down canvas walls, swing out hundreds of folding desks, blackboards and benches...
Command by Function. Actually, the Pacific command situation had settled considerably since its inception. At first, it was an operation divided by geographical lines. By now it was a command by function: the Navy transports the troops and has command of them while at sea, General MacArthur takes over the minute they land on the beaches...
Pointing to the natural sciences as particular offenders in their narrow presentation, the Colgate Committee on the Postwar College argues, 'Memorizing, even, with understanding, a group of facts from one of the natural sciences, for example, does not given an insight into the actual function or functioning of science or of scientists...