Word: function
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Take, for example, the diplomatic service. At the head, and in each capital of the world, are the Ambassadors and Ministers the official spokesmen of the nation in the respective countries to which they are accredited. Below them is a force of Diplomatic Secretaries who are charged with the function of performing the routine tasks of the particular mission at which they are serving, and, on occasion, of acting as Chief of Mission during the absence of their Ambassador or Minister. The secretaries are divided into four classes. The men of the first class are those who have worked...
Situations like these should not occur. True, University Hall is a musty old building, far too inadequate to meet the needs of the present day. But the office force, handicapped even as it is by lack of physical equipment, should certainly function in a more organized manner. For instance, the business of the Elective Office should never have been so concentrated in one person, that when the person left this year, the office found itself well-nigh helpless,--a ship without a rudder. It is true that when errors occur involving an undergraduate's standing, the deans will always rectify...
...lack of things to do. The American Expeditionary Force, when it put into khaki, in a great cause, literal millions to whom the American Republic was but a name, blocked out the vast work of patriotic fusion which the Legion now has to do. The Legion's function is to make the sentiment of American militant citizenship real, and real forever, in American lives. Evidently it does not shirk that task in the least. It will be greeted, in its Cleveland convention, on the thresh-hold of a wonderful career of public service. --Boston Transcript...
...activities of this committee, the Committee on Economic Research, are gratifying evidence that Harvard does now take an active part in the business of the nation; however secondary such work may be to the primary task of a university to educate. It indicates a new conception of the function of the university which has come into greater and greater prominence this century...
...infinitely better for all concerned to have a nominating body made up of men of intelligence, foresight and executive ability, not bound by pledges prematurely given, and acting as best they saw fit in the light of changing circumstances, than it is for the party to continue to function through the medium of an assembly of acquiescent figure-heads under the domination of a few clever leaders. May the hand of progress soon ring the curtain down upon the farce of the preferential primary...