Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard must always maintain the highest possiblt standard of liberal education; but it is crass provincialism for us to ignore the existence of other conceptions of a university's function. We fall in the quality upon which we base our pride in Harvard if we continue to think so lightly and remain in such profound ignorance as wt do now of the universities of the West. Unless we try to understand their efforts and problems we will fall equally in the service which we owe to the nation...
...delight to be a critic of a "Critique" when one can concur so heartily with Mr. Emerson. The realistic photograph, holding the mirror up to Main Street life, may be useful and instructive, but for those of us who understand that the primary function of literature is to please, a return from a personification of the average and the ordinary as characters to the standards of the old teachers will be welcomed indeed. Men are by their action happy or the reverse, but that action comes of their qualities. It is the inspired, the illustrious in rank and fortune...
...next place a man, whose function it is to advise, lives among others whose daily lives are spent in various active pursuits which perhaps take all their days and fill their minds with one subject so that their horizons are limited. If any public question arises in the town men are apt to turn to the lawyer as a person of trained mind, wider view and better able than most men to control his time. Therefore he finds a place on the local committees, in clubs, churches and other organizations. He is chosen to town office or is sent...
...angle of the conventional criticism of the present-day college is that it is too much detached from the ordinary, prosaic life beyond the pale of campus or club. Is this criticism just? Perhaps the logical reply is that the college in order to serve its proper function must be 'quite detached from the narrowness and pettiness of everyday existence; that it should not wallow in the muck of sordid partyism, but that it should cling to a rational idealism, attempting to apply its formulas worked out in the experiment station to the unscientific and illogical conditions of an unreasoning...
...satisfactory solution for his difficulties. But for the race as a whole there can be no temporizing, no compromising, no half measures; it is either to exist or to cease to exist. If the race is to exist, it must create for itself conditions of life where it can function properly, and have room and opportunity for a free and unhampered development, just as of old, on the soil where it had its birth...