Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...charter continues trends which began in 1936. These trends have diminished the council's disciplinary powers over the individual student; they have made the group's primary function that of investigation and inquiry into University policies and programs; they have made the body more elective than appointive. In short, formerly a government of the students, the organization has gradually become, as its name indicates, a "council," by and for the students...
Last week the University of California's Dr. Theodore Leonidowitch Althausen suggested an answer: the human body can readjust itself, and learn to function almost normally, with anything more than two feet of jejunum plus the duodenum. Estonian-born Dr. Althausen had previously described a case in which a woman was left with only 18 inches of vital gut she died of malnutrition after three years. Now in Gastroenterology, Dr. Althausen and three colleagues described two cases in which, with but little more small intestine the patients were living normally...
Originally established in 1947 by the Paul Report, the committees were intended to promote the class unity which had been disrupted by acceleration and scrambling during the war. Their other major functions were to counteract the House system, which divides classes into eight parts; to hold at least one social function during the academic year; and to supervise the Senior Class Album...
Though it will not function as an official University organization for fear of eventual government retaliation, the J.R.C. will continue to function actively, Sockel said...
More important, however, was the approval of a provision that four men must be appointed by the Council to work on long range advisory and evaluation projects. This clause will perhaps inspire each year's Council to perform better its most important function--that of evaluating administration policy and reporting...