Word: functional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With increased emphasis being placed on the function of the tutorial system, it is reasonable to expect that some steps will be taken to maintain a high standard of personnel which will be equal to the increased demands exacted from it. The weak link in the chain is the individual tutor...
...importance of the Institute will lie largely in the intellectual quintessence which will presumably he distilled by the association of first-rate scholars. Such a view of the function of a university is not uncommon in England. But Oxford and Cambridge, through their undergraduates and through the University Members of Parliament, keep in direct contact with the life of the nation. These vitalizing connections the proposed Institute will lack...
...chapel as a memorial feel that the slight spiritual sentiment at Harvard may be uplifted and augmented by providing new and more beautiful surroundings. On principle, this is a very superficial method of raising religious ideals. And in practice, it would be a stupendous mockery. Certainly if the function of a memorial is to equal its symbolic significance, a new chapel is the last type of edifice to erect on Harvard ground. Among the architect's plans there is a chapel capable of seating a congregation of 2,000. Yet, only a few days ago, the University advisor in religion...
March 14?Opening of the British Empire Trade Exhibition; at Buenos Aires, Argentina. Chief function in the South American "goodwill" itinerary of Edward of Wales, whose speech will be relayed to England, rebroadcast...
...House Dance, the first formal social function that has yet been conducted under the House System, will take place this evening in the Dining Hall of Lowell House, with nearly the entire body of residents in attendance...