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...Republican Party organization is completely available for a function which looks wholly to the future. This is a highly important fact. The office of chairman is open to whatever choice may be made as a result of any one of several processes, whether energy on the part of some individual seeking the office, or agreement upon some candidate by men or groups within the committee or--to name the process that is most desirable--consideration for public need...
...Village Wooing succeeded to a degree that will discomfit the author if he ever hears about it. The Dallas Little Theatre audience . . . blithely unimpressed by its history-making function, laughed often and loudly at the Immortal's casual scherzo and damned it as the most pleasant entertainment on the precincts since Ten Nights in a Bar Room...
...degree, and they have given the president an opportunity to gain broad understanding of the thought of his whole faculty. Dr. Conant has truly remarked, however, that as the teaching group grew very large, the worth of such assemblies diminished. "Where the faculties are small," he has said, "they function well as legislative bodies; where they are much larger than one hundred, their size, for many reasons, makes the transaction of business difficult...
Despite the importance of its function as a progressive educational unit the University Film Foundation has suffered a gradual financial decline which brought it this year to the point of cessation. Fortunately the University has averted immediate death of the organization by taking it over as a subsidiary and alleviating its financial distress. This move was, however, accompanied by a declaration that the distributive work of the Foundation would be cut to the minimum and active production of films completely stopped...
Another item of no small inconvenience is the position of the ground entrance into Widener. Why must that polite old gentleman who examines your books be stationed at the east door of the library? Why can't his person and function be transferred to the Massachusetts Avenue entrance, which is the most convenient for all members of the Houses, especially those who intend to use the elevator which is only fifty feet from that entrance...