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...benefit of a spring practice to learn the Harlow system, the 1946 Harlow eleven won 7 games and lost but 2--one a 27 to 14 loss to Yale. This year's season was one of the poorest in recent Harvard history as the Harlow system failed to function for the first time since the master came to Cambridge...
...request of Dean Bender that the Council is undertaking the project of sampling College opinion on the subject. In its investigation it will be guided by three basic questions: (1) Does the grade system perform a necessary educational function? (2) What effect on the student's work in a course does the preparation for hour exams and mid-term papers have and (3) what, if any, is the simplest, most inexpensive grading system...
Henry Wallace as a dissenter, the thorn in the flesh of complacent conservatism, has been performing a function that is socially useful even if somewhat upsetting to his onetime associates in the Democratic Party. As a Presidential candidate, he has laid himself open to another kind of criticism. Even if his sincerity is beyond question, there may be some doubt that he has chosen the most politically expedient method of achieving his ends...
Patiently, Emmelin & Feldberg squeezed hundreds of nettle needles to find out what was in them. They found two separate poisons, each with a special function. Acetylcholine causes the sudden burning (as if the nettle said: "Let me alone-and quick"). The other, histamine, starts the persistent itching ("Just as a reminder not to touch me again...
...Released time" for religious instruction in public-school buildings is also unconstitutional. (". . . . The school instructors vacate their function and the several churches take it over...