Word: functionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the present size of the College and that there is no one perfect or right number for Harvard. There is, no doubt, an optimum size, within reasonably narrow limits, for any college, the size being the number of students which, given an institution's particular resources, circumstances and function, it can educate with maximum effectiveness. I believe that, in these terms, our present enrollment is about five hundred too large, but I realize that this is subjective, unscientific judgment and I accept the fact that under pressure we are bound to depart somewhat from the ideal. And of course...
Separation of church and state is mainly a New World notion. European countries from Lutheran Sweden to Roman Catholic Spain are accustomed to some kind of state-church fusion. The English all it Establishment and somehow manage to make its antique machinery function, despite such intermittent creakings and groanings as to make a non-Britisher think the whole contraption is about to fall apart. Essence of the Establishment: the state protects the Church of England but also supervises its affairs; the monarch is head of the Church; bishops are appointed by the Crown on the recommendation of the Prime Minister...
Stassen began his address by discussing his function as the special advisor to the President on disarmament. The important of a sound disarmament policy can not be underestimated, he said, for "the prevention of wars is the interest of every nation and requires the substitution of peaceful methods of settling disputes such as direct negotiation...
...Students for Eisenhower" organization, whose sole function will be to poll student opinion concerning the President, will begin a membership campaign in four Houses and the Union today...
Personal Tendency. By the nature of its mission, the fund was bound to be attacked, and its success or failure was bound to depend on the ability of its spokesmen to meet the attacks. Hutchins has absorbed nearly all of the public-relations function, and Hutchins is so brilliant a controversialist that he sometimes seems to be looking for fights in which to display his debater's skill...