Word: function
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davis is primarily known for his use of minute living organisms to study cell function under normal and abnormal conditions...
...over 26 years, Harvard has been graced by the Lowell House Bells. Until divine justice eradicates them, the bells will continue to be an inescapable fact of life in Cambridge. That they perform no useful or aesthetic function does not alter this fact. They are here to stay...
...issue would seem, therefore, to incline to the abolitionists' favor, were it not for the problem of supplying employers and graduate schools with indications of the student's college efforts. This is a considerable factor. But if tests can be developed to perform this function satisfactorily, then grades would become useless as well as meaningless. With this possibility in mind, the consequences of the established system should receive serious constructive efforts at evaluation and reconsideration...
Pursuing this line, Sloane announced the formation of a Council Evaluation Committee, and revealed that it is "possible, but not probable" that the committee might find that "the Council doesn't have any function on campus...
What really hurt was a revelation of how poorly the public understands the function of banks. About 50% thought that a commercial bank was solely for "businessmen," some 34% could not define a mutual savings bank, and 40% believed that savings and loan associations were banks. As a result, suggested Banker Eaton, the big push by U.S. bankers to get people to save (TIME, Feb. 4) may be helping the savings and loan associations as much as it helps the banks...