Word: function
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...function of the first is not only to interview most, if not all, the applicants from the New York City area, but also to keep in touch with all the schools in the area to find out who the prospective applicants are and to encourage them to apply. Sometimes a member will take a high school student to visit the College for a weekend. In any case the records of the interviews are sent to the College's Admissions Office in Cambridge to become part of the student's application...
...Clubs' other major extra-curricular function is performed through the University Relations Committee, formed two years ago. Its purpose, according to Frank S. Streeter '40, Secretary of the Club, is to try to build closer relations between alumni and the University by holding events in the Club emanating from the University. Thus far, the committee has organized dinners for the Graduate School of Education, the Divinity School, and the Department of Fine Arts at which an exhibition from Fogg was shown...
Family Entertainment. Although professional nostalgics lamented the demolition of the old Roseland building as the end of an era, the dance hall had actually been changing its function for a long time. It started as a refuge for the "poor young clerks" Scott Fitzgerald wrote about; it evolved into a place of family entertainment. From the beginning, Founder Louis Brecker, a onetime Philadelphia accountant, was determined to put Roseland in a class beyond the average taxi dance hall. He publicized it as the "home of refined dancing" and installed two continuously playing orchestras (practically unheard of till then). He spotted...
...France, where presumably anything goes in such matters, this was too much for the police. In court last week, charged with "outrage of morality through books," Pauvert was defended by France's most prominent criminal lawyer, Maurice Garçon. Morals are a function of a certain time and place, Garçon argued. Bigamy, once punishable by death, is now simply fined. Abortion is legal in some countries. Jean Cocteau sent a letter arguing: "To attack Sade is to attack Jean Jacques Rousseau. The slightest mystery story from puritanical America is just as nefarious." Concluded...
...major difficulty with Memorial Hall is that it is so poorly equipped and illumnied and so shapeless that it is unsuitable for modern use. Its heating and lighting are outmoded so that the structure can't be used advantageously for any function," Bogner explained...