Word: functionalism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week U. S. editors became aware of a newspaper with a new function: quasi- official national business-getter...
Since there has always been an attempt made to find what graduates had 'sons considering entrance to Harvard, it was thought that this function might be merged with the social ones sponsored by individual classes. The meeting today is the first of these events which are hoped to become annual affairs...
...Advancement of Teaching, entitled "American College Athletics." The report is of a historic and outstanding significance to college sport. It is the most comprehensive gathering of facts ever made, and it is the the most formative in its suggestions for the restoration of athletics to their proper field and function...
...Commonwealth. In the editorial office sat "H. C.." smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty of one who must check each utterance by the most exacting dictates of his conscience. Her bert David Croly had performed the ad mirable function of providing a suitable journal for a promising decade. It is not surprising that The New Republic became almost the official organ of the White House during the Wilson Administration. With the War everything changed. Editor Croly naturally espoused the League of Nations-devoted an issue to denouncing its enemies...
...place its name. Later, during the Revolutionary War, the Moravians attracted attention to Bethlehem by taking the lead off the roof of their church, melting it down for Colonial bullets. General George Washington was serenaded by the Moravian Trombone Choir, already an important group of trumpeters whose chief function was to announce festival days, births and deaths, from the church belfry. He also went to the church, listened to the choir...