Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have advanced from passive listening to active mimicry by having students repeat what they hear from the master voice," Edward Geary, assistant professor of Romance Languages, comments. He points out the "autocritical" function: If a person makes an egregious mispronunciation, he then hears it when he replays the tape. This method, carried on in the privacy of individual booths, also avoids embarrassment for students about their blunders," Geary states, in addition to hammering in corrent pronunciations...
Even among many who would like to see the General Education requirement eliminated, there is feeling in favor of the program. Professor Brower, who feels that the job can be done by the departments if they are carefully supervised, says of the committee, "It has fulfilled a function that nothing else has fulfilled--someplace where people think about what is happening to the average undergraduate...
...discussing the future status of House dramatic productions, Steven Aaron '57, secretary of the Faculty Committee on Theatre, speculated that House theatre might have reached a stage where "they are doing plays because it is the thing to do." He suggested that the Houses might find a new function in producing plays in which students are interested, but which can not be fitted into the Loeb Theatre schedule...
...There are still other students who feel that they should be free to accept loan money under the Act without interference from professors whose scruples stand in the way; this is not an easy issue to resolve, but in my judgment, Harvard would be remiss in its specific educational function to all its students if its actions as well as its curriculum didn't speak for freedom--and of course students who think otherwise needn't come to Harvard, and are free to go elsewhere to colleges that interpret their responsibilities to education differently...
...advisory system at Penn. "We don't have a tutorial system--it is not consisten with our tradition," he says. But, he adds, "I wish our counselling methods had worked out better. Each incoming freshman gets an academic adviser, who usually becomes his sophomore supervisor as well. The function of the adviser during the first two years is at best loosely defined, and many underclassmen rarely see the men assigned to them. When students begin to concentrate in the junior year, they receive a "major adviser," who works closely with them, planning courses and helping with other academic decisions...