Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century ago, it presented Harvard with the scions of prominent families, who were almost certain to succeed; today it attracts the intellectually active, highly motivated, socially mobile public school graduate as well as the more traditional group. The prestige of the degree is a large portion of Harvard's function as a social escalator, but as society's instrument of social mobility, the colleges in general also offer a place to acquire the style of professional life--the style of the upper class...
Profiteering is not the only danger suggested by the shelter boom. Legislation now before Congress ascribes a quasi-military function to private buildings, blurs the distinction between civil and national defense, and jeopardizes the strike right of building-trades workers in the name of national survival. Needless to say, Rockefeller's political stance and rhetoric before the New York Assembly subcommittee adds considerable impetus to such frightening developments...
...point on it, almost negligible. Sydney Freedberg, the chairman of the department, goes so far as to say that the studio courses give a Fine Arts concentrator "no aesthetic, technical, historical or creative advantages" unobtainable in the regular lecture courses. The department, Mr. Freedberg explains, originally assumed the function of presenting studio courses only because there was no other unit in the University able to offer such courses. (Why the department bothered to take on this task is a question which intrigues Mr. Feininger: "I've often asked myself not so much why I'm leaving...
Diplomats like to say, with an air of sour professional amusement, that their function is to rush about the world cautiously filling in holes their policy-making superiors have dug. Perhaps it is so; Mr. Dean Rusk, being neither a diplomat or policy-maker, but a little of both, has been digging and filling furiously during the past two weeks. He insisted on the Punta del Este conference, and had to spend his time in Uruguay extricating himself from...
...defended the decision to de-emphasize the role of Board of Hall in governing the College. "One of SGA's big problems has been the duplication of its work by small autonomous bodies. We want to make the RGA Council the sole legislating body and see if it can function effectively...