Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...function will be for all present and former editors of the CRIMSON and their invited guests. About 150 people are expected to attend. About 150 people are expected to attend. There have always been dances at noon and at night on Class Day, but no tea-dances at the particular time when the CRIMSON will hold its festivities...
...Junior banquet which is to be held at the Harvard Union on Wednesday, May 17, at 7 P. M., is the one big function of the year which all 1917 has an opportunity to attend. It is the last class meeting this spring and should furnish an excellent chance for men to get together and support the class as it passes on to its Senior year...
Since politics enter into government research, the other form of investigation, that by individual educational organizations, fulfills a necessary function. To be qualified to enter this field efficiently the Economics Department lacks a prime necessity, some form of endowment. Until it receives financial backing, similar, perhaps, to that of the Physics Department, this comparatively undeveloped branch of the University cannot widen the scope of its research work...
...college graduate, although his general training might be good, was often not immediately serviceable in business. His mind might be active, his vision broad, and his ideals high, but frequently he did not function properly in the initial stages of his business career. He was apt to be impatient with exacting routine and wearisomely repeated detail operations, because he did not realize their significance. He often sought promotion, not merely because the pay was higher but because the work was more interesting, before in his employer's opinion he was fitted for the work of the organization he had entered...
...have said nothing about one important function of the Department, that of scientific research. Obviously, its first duty has been to provide the large amount of graduate and undergraduate instruction which the conditions have seemed to demand. This has not prevented the staff from carrying on more or less work of research, and the development of graduate instruction has tended to increase materially the number of investigations that are being carried on under the direction of the Department. But it is becoming more and more evident that this work requires larger pecuniary resources than have ever been available...