Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program of events. He has safely established his retinue of visitors at convenient or less convenient distances, and snatched a brief sleep after a strenuous and brilliant evening. The program of the day gives the center of the stage to 1923. Undergraduates linger only under tolerance, for the responsible function of ushering or the irresponsible one of satisfying an idle curiosity. The assembled graduates may lord it on Thursday to their hearts content, and in their respective reunions today outside Cambridge. But when they gather this afternoon it will be as mere onlookers at the initiation of a new class...
This dual function of the Union indicates its greatest problem. Major Higginson hoped that his gift might serve as a club to which all Harvard students should belong, but his idea has remained largely a pious hope. The Union has approximately 1500 members, of whom, about eleven percent are members of no other college club. It is for these men--in so far at least as they are not Freshmen--that the Union exists as a club and it is by these men that the Union is used--and used incidentally to a greater extent than the Harvard Club...
Officially it is a body without any power. But it has a monthly dinner, and its function is to coordinate the Departments so that they may work as a team instead of separately or antagonistically. Neither is it as a whole a body of nobodies and underlings, for all its roster of assistants, even to the fourth power. It includes such men as Dwight W. Davis (Assistant Secretary of War), James M. Beck (Solicitor General), Theodore Roosevelt (Assistant Secretary of the Navy), A. T. Seymour (Acting Attorney-General...
...preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals and the aspirations of mankind. Each of these two activities represents a deep and vital function of the soul of man, and both are necessary for the life, the progress and the happiness of the human race...
...Morrow, wife of the Governor of the Canal Zone, met Mrs. Belisario Porras, wife of the President of Panama, at an official function a year ago. To their mutual surprise, they found each other interesting and became friends...