Word: functional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Transportation portfolios exist in the Cabinets of Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia. In many another country the Minister of Public Works exercises this function...
...Harvard's famed economist and rail expert, William Zebina Ripley. In the course of a lecture at Columbia University, Professor Ripley declared: "Such a Cabinet official would have just the prestige and authority to enforce discipline on the rail industry that it needs." Under the Ripley plan the administrative functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission (locomotive inspection, accident investigation, safety equipment orders) would be transferred to the Department of Transportation while the I. C. C.'s judicial work (rate-making, valuation, corporate finance) would be left as an independent function. Other governmental activities which could logically be transferred...
Again the present educational system in America has been challenged, this time a by a college undergraduate rather than by a professional educator. W.H. Hale, in the current issue of the Harkness Hoot, has accused the American university of debasing its function by stooping to popularism and then trying to cure the evil by legislation on requirements, by the establishment of new institutions, and by the erection of costly buildings...
...subject matter for a survey. To the critical, the fact will appear as a further indictment of the American collegiate mind. It is becoming apparent that for an increasing number of undergraduates, the four years of university life are chiefly financial investment; the external acknowledgment, the diploma, in its function of "social background" and "vocational recommendation," is rapidly superseding the education itself in point of importance. Hanging from this punky bough is a whole hornet's nest of educational evils, which include, among the more painful stings, "gut-hopping" and the neglecting of natural talents for more practical pursuits...
...Editor's Note: The editorial did not mean to imply that the Celtic culture is dead. Its point was that if, as the press report suggested, the University of Inverness was to be founded mainly to preserve a dying language, it would serve no valuable function. It was from this point of view that the sentence quoted above was written...