Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about new rules in Lamont, and operated a successful book exchange. In addition, it presented a persuasive report urging the establishment of a student activities center, took over supervision of 52 Dunster Street, and effectively mediated minor disputes between House Committees. It made no historic accomplishments, but it did function usefully and quietly in a limited arena. Most important, the Minihan Council established an operating organization which might eventually have been used to significant advantage...
...many students, however, will actually write letters, and it would be unfortunate if the CRIMSON's voice were the only one heard in the undergraduate community. There still remains a function for a Council, but that function is strictly defined by the dictum to thoroughly research a problem and present an argument cogently and politely. This is the sort of thing a council can do; several decades ago this is what the Student Council did, with impressive results...
Roger comes to the U.S. ostensibly in his function as a publisher, but privately to visit his mistress, a blonde, heavy-lidded mother of one, who is married to a Danish philosopher at Budweiser College, somewhere in Pennsylvania. (Amis himself was a visiting lecturer at Princeton...
...addition to questions about internal management practices, any comprehensive study of HSA affairs would have to raise three basic questions: Is the HSA fulfilling its function as an employer of needy students? Does the HSA provide the University with quality services and products at fair prices? What is the effect of the HSA on other organizations within the University? The 17-page report released last week by the HCUA Executive Committee contains only unsupported generalizations on the first two questions and completely ignores the third. Despite its bulk, it is regrettably lacking both in information and proposals...
...function of a tutorial is to push students around, intellectually speaking: it is the most effective answer to the problem of getting a student to take a sophisticated position on the problems that will face him," Theodore R. Sizer, Director of the MAT program, explained last night...