Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most elected groups derive their prestige and power from some definite function which they alone perform, and this function is usually an administrative one. Well-defined administrative responsibility is the the root of House Committee power, for instance. In its sessions with the deans, the reorganization committee failed to discover one significant administrative duty at Harvard besides the Combined Charities drive which the Council could perform. Thus, the new Council will once again have to operate without a clear-cut sphere of power...
...thought that bands and other entertainment will not insist upon previous contracts, since the original engagements would be for essentially illegal function...
Pointing out that trade unions in emerging countries are different in organization and in function from our own trade unions, Lodge emphasized their great determining influence in political affairs, and especially their association with movements for national independence. In these countries politicians often ride to power on the strength of their leadership of labor movements, such as in Brazil, Congo, and in Kenya...
...primacy of Gartner's article raises the larger question of the proper function of Current as the magazine of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Club. According to editor Michael Novak, in his opening editorial: "No practical issue is so important to the Current at the present time as the speedy assumption by Negroes of full and equal dignity as citizens of America." Novak's central concern seems curiously irrelevant to those of us who hoped to find in Current discussion of Catholicism and its concerns, contemporary and historical, at Harvard and elsewhere. Of course discrimination against Negroes is an immense problem...
...critical dilemmas of the committed Catholic, Kiely has opened the way for more discussion of what it means to be a Catholic at Harvard. Hopefully the next issue of Current will pick up the trail. Surely it is in discussing such questions that Current best fulfills its unique function...