Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Center for Research in Personality is a component of the Social Relations Department. Its central function is the training of graduate students in Clinical Psychology and Personality. Research by staff members is a second important goal of the Center. Several staff members and graduate students at the Center for Research in Personality are engaged in the development of methods for behavior change. The efficacy of psilocybin in behavior change is one of several techniques being studied...
...tutorial, in fact, has no business imparting factual knowledge, even as implicit preparation for generals. Its function is clear: there is no other way to give students the tough sort of personal confrontation with Faculty that appears absolutely necessary to the imaginative formation of approaches to a given subject. You cannot do this through a House system; you must do it somewhere...
...departments have showed amazing ingenuity in adapting themselves to performing precisely this function. Others, like English and Economics, have been notable failures. Economics 98 is in effect a lecture course, and why that Department cannot offer ordinary lectures in micro-and macro-economics as requirements for the degree and give tutorial also is difficult to imagine. It is a complicated undertaking to revise the teaching load regulations under which teaching fellows labor, but it is probably a necessary...
...Dorm presidents are the only officers people care about electing," she explained, "and there's a lot of feeling that SGA is too large to function well...
...activity, so long as their criticism does not turn to blind apolitical protest, and so long as they recognize that their aims are those of a part of the political arena, the march is a step forward. Those who support a liberalization of American policies need not resign the function of criticism to those of the right; they need not be so timid that they only look on and applaud with silence...