Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although the Student Council recommended last fall that no class smokers be held this year on account of the war, the executive committee of that body have stated that there will be no objection to this function, inasmuch as it is to be conducted economically and will be the only class reunion this year...
...lecture this evening will relate to the function of the airplane as an offensive weapon, and also as an aid to the other branches of the service at the front. Every phase of the use of aviation in modern warfare will be taken up, and many lantern slides will be used by the speaker to illustrate the points brought up in the address...
Professor Sabine stated yesterday that his speech "will relate to conditions at the front, and the function of aviation as an offensive weapon, and as an aid to the other branches of the service." The lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides, and will deal to a considerable extent with airplane photography. The speaker will also discuss the part of the airplane in actual fighting...
...warmer weather. With the return of more normal conditions the practicability of holding the Junior Dance will be assured. It was, therefore, a wise step on the part of the committee to postpone rather than cancel the arrangements they had planned, for the value of one such social function to break through the monotony of the College year is not to be denied...
...before the undergraduates, and is in keeping with this proposition. Should the College declare itself in favor of the plan of moving all academic engagements forward one hour and the Faculty later adopt it, it would be highly out of place for the Junior Class to hold a function which would be contrary to the entire purpose of the plan of economizing electric lights by the use of the natural light of the early morning. The stand taken in regard to the Junior Dance will probably influence the vote of the College next Tuesday in no small measure...