Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maid mumbles something about saving the heroine from herself, but her principal function is obviously to rescue Faulkner from the moiling unmotivated mess of his plot. Actresses Remick and Odetta sometimes polarize the disorder with a powerful, paradoxical image of salvation: the black earth-mother hanged on a flimsy white flibbertigibbet. But on the whole, Producer Richard (son of Darryl) Zanuck's attempt to clean up Faulkner for the family seems a bit like trying to smear the whole of Yoknapatawpha County with underarm deodorant. It might just possibly be done, but it sure does seem a peculiar thing...
Both John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House and Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, told the CRIMSON on Feb. 10 that the proposal had very little chance for adoption. In the case of the freshmen. Dean Von Stade performs the function of the Masters, and he has called the plan "unworkable...
...statistics were not really very pertinent, for the debate has come down to more intangible things: now, all parties regard the important question as one of how well the College can perform a function rather than one of sheer number. The anti-expansionists, led by the Masters, stress that Harvard's role as an educational leader requires a freedom to experiment which can come only if the Houses remain cohesive units, not overburdened with the pressures of crowding. In direct opposition, some administrators feel that a slight increase in needed as a stimulus to educational innovation and as a check...
...bigger the church, the more ponderous the machinery. "It all sounds so spiritual and satisfying until a skeptic begins to think of all the administration involved. Then my feet get chilled. Let us face it: the only way an ecclesiastical institution the size of the Roman Catholic Church can function effectively is to be authoritarian. Is this our goal...
...Administrative Board conduct these evaluations; both must approve each application. During the first few months of the program, the Committee on Advanced Standing carefully scrutinized all requests. But they lacked the knowledge to evaluate the merits of each applicant and his program and, in effect, resigned this function to the departments. So the young lady who hands you the form now says, "if you can get your Head Tutor's signature, that's 95 per cent of the problem."--if you don't run afoul of some administration rule...