Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proper function of exams has been widely mis-understood. As instruments for checking up on the mechanical aspects of the educational process they are ideal. However exams cannot and should not attempt to produce creativity. The superficiality of most exam answers and the difficulty of honest grading are legendary among teaching fellows. Besides, anyone who feels that a one-hour essay written under conditions of stress can accurately plumb the depth of his or her intelligence and understanding must be in a pretty bad state...
...state--through its power to tax--helped to translate profits from industry into needed social services. In the American city the tax power is severely limited. A new democratically controlled institution, the Community Corporation -- which administers neighborhood services and owns some neighborhood industry--is needed to fulfill the same function and to respond to the local community as no centralized nation state...
...Stanford University's Lambda Nu fraternity house, complains Junior Dan Stone, 20, "our most cohesive social function is watching Walter Cronkite." Next fall the fraternity's social life should get a big lift. With the University's consent, the 30 brothers living at Lambda Nu will welcome 20 coeds as "associates" who will sleep and eat in the fraternity, participate in its activities and, predicts one brother, monopolize the house's lone telephone...
...advocates of the recruiting plan argue, the Ed School also stands to gain from an influx of disadvantaged students. Minority group students bring with them a gut comprehension of the problems of their communities, and the Ed School cannot hope to function effectively in its urban training or research until it has the benefit of their perspective...
Cornell, however according to its graduate dean, "cannot function without" those teaching assistants who now face the draft. Cooke said last night that Cornell will ask local boards to grant II-A (occupational) deferments and will appeal if they are refused. "We don't know what will happen, but we are going to ask for them because we absolutely must have them," he said...