Word: functional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legal Aid Bureau, in its seventeenth year of service, renders a double service to the public and the Law School. While primarily for the service of students of the University, the Bureau also undertakes cases for clients who otherwise could not afford legal service. Besides this charitable function, which helps to fill a gap in the judicial machinery of the United States, the Bureau is of great value not only to law students, but also to the entire legal profession...
...done to remedy both. Their inspirer is not "utterly discouraged with the futility of all educational institutions"; he wants to make the institutions better, and as a disciple of Socrates he begins by looking to see what is wrong, and having found it he criticizes it. That is the function of Dr. Meiklejohn's words; his acts, at Wisconsin and formerly at Amherst, show what he believes should be done, and what he does...
...assembled eight consultants, men of proven capacity in their various branches of scholarship, whose sole function will be to give workers at the library the benefit of their experience...
...just the same way today do New York art critics regard that annual function, the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists ("No jury. No prizes."). Started 19 years ago by a group of young artists in revolt against the pontifical National Academy of Design, all that is necessary to exhibit a picture with the Independents is six dollars and an opus...
However, whatever as the function of the University and whatever value may lie in the adolescent intervention in national affairs, this crying in the wilderness is rather interesting in the light of Harvard's recent petition to Stimson and Hoover in regard to the management of the disarmament conference. Undergraduate publications in practically all American colleges bear witness to an interest in other problems of national and world significance. If in the face of these facts Dr. Meiklejohn still insists on the indifference of the students, he will run the risk of becoming a male Cassandra, prophet only of evil...