Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Student Council has no place, no function, no purpose in the Harvard Community. It cannot purport to represent student opinion either to the faculty or to the nation. It is completely out of touch with both faculty or to the nation. It is completely out of touch with both faculty and student body. There are no reasons to justify the existence of an organization which only has a dining hall and a parietal hours report to show for its "stupendous" labor for the last seven months...
...sport which requires the utmost in team work, Coach Harvey Love has been plagued all spring with the inability to find a combination of eight men that can consistently function as a winning shell...
...this new ground, science took root and flowered. "The two older definitions of man's telos, classical humanism and religious transcendentalism, were pushed aside." Reason became a "means-ends relation," losing its "larger meaning which included the moral and esthetic function." Technique has become not merely a means to an end, but an end in itself. Asks Tillich: "Is this not surrender of a telos altogether...
...Council really wants to become non-ideological and can find no suitable pieces of specific legislation, it might begin by changing its title to suit its function--call itself, say, the College Service Committee and elect a coordinator instead of a President. At least this sort of action will allow its future leaders to express their opinions without allowing the purportedly non-political Student Council to become spokesmen for the College's political beliefs...
...more accustomed to making private arrangements with competitors. With most of Japan's production in the hands of a few big business combines and the militarist government favoring heavy industry over consumer goods, there was no room for well-planned, creative ad campaigns. An adman's chief function was to sell space in newspapers and magazines; often he was greeted by signs that warned: "Peddlers and advertising men, keep...