Word: function
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...report acknowledged that the President is the Commander in Chief, but then went on to note that Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution empowers the Congress "to raise and support" military forces. Stated the report: "Might we not liken the function of the President to that of a general who has complete command over his forces but who cannot dictate the precise weapons with which his forces will be armed? The decision as to the kind of rifle, the type of tank, and the configuration of the airplane has already been decided by other authority and the material furnished...
...Praja Socialists, supported mainly by the non-Communist intelligentsia, lost nearly half of their 197 state legislature seats and five of 16 seats in Parliament, and thus virtually ceased to function as an opposition party...
Organized four years ago, at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, the orchestra's function is to round out the students' musical education by giving them practice in the full orchestral range. Its public appearances were so successful that the State Department decided to sponsor a full-scale European tour. At first, Eastman's Howard Hanson, who directs both the school and the orchestra, worried that three months was a long time out of school. The tour turned out to be an education in itself...
Dean Monro admitted last night that by opening Honors tutorial to all concentrators the College has caused a "shift" in the function of the House seminars, but he said there was no reason why open tutorial and House seminars could not both continue...
John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House, asserted that the seminars have a "very strong function," as they allow investigation of areas that "would not be covered at all in tutorial." He added that Quincy House has run six or seven seminars this year, all of which were "very well attended...