Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preserving something characteristic from the beginning. Once Harvard was small now it is great. The first graduating class numbered only nine; of late commencement degrees are awarded to more than a thousand. At the outset all the graduates were trained to teach or to preach, which latter function was as much a matter of theology as the former was a matter of "the classics...
...friends through her own chicanery in a darkened room. This lady's husband is in turn involved with Mr. Warwick's wife and the virgin moves safely toward matrimony with a gracious man-about-town. The bedroom doors are all well oiled; they function silently, ceaselessly. What philosophy the play contains issues from the mouth of matronly Alison Skipworth as a Long Island Wife of Bath. Early in the evening she observes: "There is a spirit of unrest in the air, and one feels the breath of Eros blowing in from the garden." Later she delivers a homily...
...posters advertising the show Miss Swanson is said to have a voice "as lovely as herself". This applies only to the talking parts, where indeed it is good, but when she sings, the synchronization instruments fail to function properly and the reproduction is rather uncertain...
...draw your attention to the fact that a committee exists which aims at performing just that function and moreover provides the books it recommends. The Library Committee of the Harvard Union meets every month and makes a selection from, the current literature of every kind and the books selected are added to the library. The constitution of the committee, which is representative of the Faculty, the Tutors, and the Undergraduates, ensures a catholicity of taste, and the aim of the committee has always been to meet the needs of the present generation of students, as well as to assemble...
Yale apparently is too close to being a one-man team for comfort. Harvard has no outstanding star like Booth, but it has a well-balanced batch of material and has no outstanding weakness, now that the Michigan game has proved that the line can function. One defect is that this Harvard team lacks the finesse...