Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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This is a great liberal institution. It numbers in its faculty men of diverse tendencies. With some of them I hope you will disagree. No attempt will be made to force upon you the views of any particular person or group. It is not the function of the faculty to dictate to the students. Harvard asks no blind subservience to the doctrines of any man. She bespeaks tolerance and fair play and respect for the sincere opinion of others. She frowns upon all narrow-ness; she resents the imputation of unworthy motives to those from whom we may happen...
...need a more intelligent comprehension by the people of the function of law, and a closer adherence by their representatives to the essentials of law-making. Lawlessness will never be stopped by the passage of more laws, nor by the imposition of more severe punishments. Laws which violate natural rights and which the general will does not accept cannot be enforced. Laws which are unworthy of respect will not be respected. As Cardinal O'Connell said the other day: "History proves that goodness and virtue cannot be forced on a people by statutes or by machine guns." "It is impossible...
...after the Civil War to keep Chinese laundrymen, restaurateurs, merchants, servants, etc. from molestation by competitors or the authorities of any race. The laundry business (fast becoming a Chinese monopoly in the U. S. until the advent of steam-machinery from Troy, N. Y.) and the others still function; so do the Tongs. They assure their members (besides a sort of racketeer protection) of legal and charitable support in time of trouble, and of fraternal intercourse. There are some 60,000 Chinese in the U. S. Most of them belong to a Tong, of which there are about 15. Initiation...
Equally "special" are low-boiling-point fuels which vaporize easily, facilitate quick starting in winter time (but which do not produce more power), and the knock-reducing fuels. Function of the latter is to eliminate the metallic clanks which old motors make when straining on hills. The puzzling question of what constitutes a knock-reducing fuel was perhaps solved by an announcement last week telling of the work of the co-operative steering committee...
...entirely disappeared. Last week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently prepared an ancient diuretic which the French pharmacopoeia had dropped in 1884. He had soaked viper heads in alcohol, macerated the heads with chopped meat and salt water, filtered the concoction. This macerated residue he injected under the patient's skin. Quickly she recovered...