Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Huvelle has also been a member of record-setting one-mile and two-mile relay teams. He performed his first official function as captain yesterday afternoon by not showing up for the team picture...
...addition to the rule book was made to give all students knowledge of the College's position. The amendments concerning required withdrawal--which is a result of an unsatisfactory scholastic record or a violation of discipline--have an identical function...
...arbitration" committee which meets this week at Radcliffe to make recommendations about the house system is like one of those loftily named advisory committees President Johnson is in the habit of appointing. The committee has no real function, the issue at stake has grown tiresome, and each side knows what the other thinks before the meetings begin. Because the recommendations are not binding on President Bunting and the College Council, they--in the end--will probably overrule any proposals that are not in keeping with their own ideas...
...very well, countered Tory M.P. Sir John Hobson, "if all the jury were doing was objectively solving an intellectual problem. But it has a much more important function, that of applying its subjective judgment to the witnesses who appear before it. Each one of the twelve jurors must consider how far one or other of all those witnesses are or are not to be believed...
...Miss Kearns, both graduate students in Government, acknowledge the electoral risks of forming a new party. They seem to have assimilated the fact that independent candidates for President--from Teddy Roos-evelt to Robert LaFollette to Henry Wallace--have accumulated a steadily diminishing percentage of the vote. The real function of a third party, they insist, is "to demonstrate the existence of a block of voters for whose support a major party must bid; to force major parties to alter stands on certain issues and to serve as bridges for movement of the discontented from one party to another...