Word: functionally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shows, the Council has become a closed group, dedicated only toward furthering its own ends. The fact that most students aren't interested in exercising their franchise to alter this situation is merely an additional argument for making the Council an appointive body, thus returning it to its proper function as an advisory group. George L. Wrenn...
...there is certainly a job for the Student Council, even though the present Council may be far from doing it. The Council should return to its original function as a purely advisory group, as a panel which can represent student opinion to the Deans and do the job thoroughly. This can be fairly unattractive work; it involves the long and unglamorous writing of reports on tutorial, or scholarships, or the house system. It means the transference of the Council's service functions--the football ticket exchanges or week-end ride swapping or activities bulletins--to other organizations...
...community," this community being defined as the "students, faculty, and alumni of Harvard University and Redcliffe College, and their families." Sine most publications get the bulk of their funds from advertising, this requirement, if enforced, would put them out of business. Again, the rules say that Saturday night social functions on club premises at which women are present must end by midnight, claiming that this is required by law. Such an assertion is untrue, since police state that a private function at a club is not subject to blue laws. Through and through, the proposed rules contain suck poorly drawn...
Perkins was ready to send his writers long letters with shrewd and specific suggestions for improving their manuscripts, but he realized that a main function was to prop their drooping egos while they worked. To Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings he wrote, "I can understand your feeling anxious, because a good writer always does, and ought to." Perkins became father confessor, literary adviser, financial agent and friend to his struggling writers. He negotiated with Tom Wolfe's dunning creditors while Wolfe was in Europe, he gentled Sherwood Anderson when Anderson was on his last literary legs, and he reassured a nervous...
...most of the day, Greene is concerned with keeping interdepartmental mail flowing among the sub-stations, and fending off intruders who have severe misconceptions about the function of his service. At the beginning of each school year, curious freshmen keep popping in to find out why their monthly checks go astray and why they keep getting letters addressed to people in Eliot House. All Greene can do is refer them to the Information Office in Weld Hall, and offer to sell them some stamps. He does about $50 worth of stamp business each week, mostly in the three-cent variety...