Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audiences. Last year, Norman Thomas spoke at North House and Eleanor Roosevelt visited East House. The East House committee has sponsored informal talks by professors, student panels, writers and career women. Polly Walker '63, president of Moors Hall felt that promoting such talks was North House's most useful function...
...ready to consider the hypothetical option of moving off-campus as seniors. In many cases, material or culinary considerations accounted for the present discomfort; but in many others, a shift would mean the chance for contact with students or faculty members on other Houses (i.e., would serve the primary function of residential education). Although there has been an apparent effort to place tutorials in the Houses and to institute a broad seminar program, fewer than 30 per cent of those polled thought the Houses played any significant role in the academic side of their undergraduate existence...
...made up of political greedy old men who are not and have not been qualified to serve as a judge of any court, much less as a judge of the highest tribunal of the land. They have done the very thing prohibited by the Constitution in taking over the function of the legislature. This court, together with the hungry, mad, ruthless, ungodly, power-mad men who would change this Government from a democracy to a totalitarian dictatorship have attempted to crush the people of this state through the excuse of upholding and enforcing an unlawful order that had not become...
Griffin's observations about his two drivers are more humane than one would have expected. He tries to see the first man as he must function among whites, a respected member of his community trying to be decent with his family and his friends. The second, he realizes, is neither consciously insulting him nor is he especially perverted. He simply cannot imagine that Negroes might be human beings...
Declaring that the principal function of the proposed forum will be to bring the organizations together to discuss their common problems and to "help ease the tensions" among them, Minihan observed that "most of the time in the past, they have refused to talk to each other...