Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michael Hornblow '62 remarked that since the Council should have a limited, humble function, it should have a humble name." Marc J. Roberts '64 described the proposed change as "an accurate description of the duties of the new Council's functions without the usual student government connotations of 'student council' or the memory of Howie Phillips...
...other reform was the consolidation of the 15 freshman dorms into five units, each under a senior adviser and his staff of advisers. The old loose supervision of the two assistant deans is gone; in its place are five more closely knit bodies whose main function is advising. Where the whole freshman advising staff used to meet once at the beginning of the year, the unit staffs are now holding monthly meetings...
...colostomy relieved an intestinal obstruction. A recurrence of cancer nearby was relieved by X-ray treatment. When the abdominal cavity began to fill with fluid, radioactive phosphorus checked the process. Bronchopneumonia was cured by an antibiotic. Cancer spread to the liver, and again X-rays were used. As liver function progressively declined, many medical measures supported the patient. If some of these treatments had been withheld, said Dr. Karnofsky, the patient would have died within weeks or days. Successively, they kept him alive for ten months. Dr. Karnofsky asked, "When should the physician stop treating this patient?" and answered...
...Beverly Hills. A shrewd and durable Russian immigrant with a talent for bargaining that propelled him from a drugstore in Manhattan's Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin) and to launch a clutch of stars ranging from Norma Talmadge (his wife from 1917 to 1934) to Marilyn Monroe...
...Policy changes at Harvard are brought about by a representative group developing a good idea and presenting it with tact and clear reasoning. Failure and inability of past Councils to perform its function brought about this Committee and the writing of a new Constitution," the report states...