Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...these blessings President "Bob"' LeTourneau thanks God. Last year he thanked Him 500 times before evangelist congregations to whom he preached free of charge. Weekly one of a coterie of ministers performs the same function for him in his Peoria plant's lunchroom for minor executives. To meet his preaching schedule he travels in his own eight-passenger Lockheed plane-big enough to carry a soprano known as "The Gospel Nightingale" and the (Negro) Carolina Gospel Quartet. Dirt-mover LeTourneau calls his church the Christian Missionary Alliance, and has preaching engagements for the next 14 months...
...function of the Placement Office is to bring together students seeking business employment and employers seeking graduating students. One phase of this activity is scheduling interviews for students with representatives sent to the College by the large national corporations. These companies are frankly in search of outstanding men and to find twenty trainees may visit twenty or more colleges. Such a company recruiting at Harvard may interview thirty men and hire only two. It is true, under these circumstances, that the "upper tenth" stand the best chance of employment...
...admitted to the mysterious inner councils. He became head of the Iroquois League, a Democratic organization whose main function was collecting moneys from contractors doing business with the State and from State employes a 2% salary assessment. Last year the Iroquois League was dissolved, the Illinoisans, a similar organization, set up. Mr. Smith headed...
Denver's Ionic-columned post office was pictured on the first floor; the Denver Children's Hospital, all function and windows, on the second. Manhattan's cavernous Pennsylvania Station, based on the Baths of Caracalla, was a contrast to the sheer, severe, glass-&-marble front of Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Neither cause nor cure for this unhealthy situation is clear. But an unhealthy situation it is, for an educational institution does not function effectively if the men who do the actual educating cannot, or will not, aid in shaping the teaching policies of that institution. Perhaps someone ought to start spiking the Faculty's tea with...