Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many liberals agreed that it was not the function of the Harvard Faculty to express its formal opinion. When the vote came, however, in a medium-sized Faculty meeting, the remaining liberals and a large number of non-caucus Faculty members combined to defeat the convocation proposal by a single vote. The resolution against the war was passed, but was insignificant compared to the implications of the convocation vote...
...instruments of University government that have come into existence in the last year. I've strongly believed that a university should be self-governing-that scholars should not and do not need businessmen, lawyers or professional academic trainers to run their affairs. But as this new government begins to function, and especially in the field of rule enforcement. I detect a tendency for those who do not like a particular result to attack, often with some indignation, the idea of government. I am sure this machinery is imperfect; being less than a year old, it could hardly be otherwise...
They also point out that the current trend for schools is to take over more and more of the function of caring for children. The number of day-time hours in which a mother is needed at home-even a mother with small children-is decreasing...
...Bunting has suggested that there be some form of women's organization for all the undergraduates, an expanded Radcliffe Union of Students. RUS may not be the ideal group for this function, but it also might be revitalized by having a distinct function within the community...
Some of us now may have a bedroom of our own (although living space at Radcliffe is distinctly less plentiful than at Harvard), but we do not have room-real psychological room in which to function...