Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strongly disagreed, though, that power necessarily lies in administrative control. To him, the Board of Overseers provides a "perfect example" of "enormous," non-administrative power, and he suggested that they new Council might function most effectively as a student overseer group, with similar powers of visiting and suggestion...
...insultingly brief, considering the amount of work put into the paper. "Able job," "fine work," "sloppy reasoning"--these comments do not educate. Ideally, as Robert P. Wolff noted, students should be writing papers every week and going over them word by word with an instructor. courses cannot fulfill this function--more properly reserved for tutorial work--but course graders might be able to talk with students about their papers, if there were more men among whom to divide the work. If a comment on a paper does not suggest in some way what to do next, it serves no purpose...
Finally, Hammarskjold's heavy and ultimately tragic military intervention in Katanga aroused more Western antagonism than almost anything else he had done. That failure was not merely an error of military judgment, but could be traced back directly to the inherent confusion about the U.N.'s function and powers in the world. Thus the U.S. is faced not merely with Russia's perennial wrecking tactics; the U.N. after all can serve as an extremely useful mirror to show these tactics to the world. Nor is the U.S. merely faced with the political irresponsibility of the "new" nations...
...addition, the PT requirement loads facilities with people who do not wish to participate at the expense of those who do--a trivial point unless one believes that the function of the athletic department is to serve the students rather than enforce discipline. A Faculty which contributes several million a year to support athletics may have its reservations about forcing the commodity on those who do not want...
...mission to the Congo, found its fullest expression in the document which turned out to be his final testament to the world. In the report which he was to have submitted to the General Assembly upon his return from Africa, Mr. Hammarskjold contrasted two concepts of the authority and function of the United Nations. Some members, he said, regard the U.N. as "a static conference machinery for resolving conflicts of interest;" others conceive of it as "a dynamic instrument of governments" which not only seeks reconciliation, but attempts to develop "forms of executive action" to forestall conflicts...