Word: functionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...especially loud complaints this year have indicated that the present system is not perfect. There are two large improvements necessary, both based on the educational function of the College and both correctable within the existing system. Though the College should not apportion freshmen by athletic ability, school, or geographical background, neither should the less popular Houses be a dumping ground for freshmen whose grades rank under Group IV. Each Housemaster should be required to accept an equal number of Group V and VI students...
...Some might imagine the difference between the Soviet and American press to be that between a regimented, controlled press and a free, democratic one. But Mr Salisbury dissents: 'The [Soviet] conception of the press is different. Its basic function is conceived to be one of informing and educating ... It is regarded as much more important that the Soviet public be informed effectively and correctly than that news be rushed into print...
There is a line at which "freedom" or "privilege" begins to be qualified by legal "duty" and "obligation." The determination of the line is the function of the legislature and the courts. The ultimate interpretation and application of the First and Fourteenth Amendments* are the function of the U.S. Supreme Court . . . These are not to be determined arbitrarily or by public outcry. The line thus drawn can be changed by legislative and judicial action; it has varied in the past because of prevailing anxieties as well as by reason of "clear and present" danger. Its location is subject...
...fulfill their function the members of university faculties must continue to analyze, test, criticize and reassess existing institutions and beliefs . . . such investigations cannot be confined to the physical world. The acknowledged fact that moral, social and political progress have not kept pace with mastery of the physical world shows the need for more intensified research, fresh insights . . . The scholar's mission requires the study and examination of unpopular ideas, of ideas considered abhorrent and even dangerous . . . Timidity must not lead the scholar to stand silent when he ought to speak . . . In matters of conscience and when he has truth...
...rest principally in the U.S. and the Scandinavian countries. U.S. Lutherans, especially since 1945, have made a good deal of contact with their German brethren. Besides contributing some $24 million to German church welfare funds, they have perhaps shown the Germans how a church independent of the state can function...