Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shorn of all power and responsibility the Assistant Deans of University Hall carry on the work of specialized clerks whose principal function is to read the law (already prescribed in no uncertain terms) to recalcitrant offenders. For the most part, eminently fitted to help students through the everyday, general problems of college life they have no power to give such aid if they felt so inclined...
Government House Tornoto His Honour the Lieutenant Governor regets that, the Prime Minister of Ontario and his Cabinet having declined the invitation to be present at the State Dinner on February 20th this function will not be held. His Honour trusts that you have not been inconvenienced...
...backbone of the secondary school teaching of German in the East and that it will immediately decline in favor of French if the rules are changed. But it seems a little absurd that the University should support such teaching if the students do not want it. It is the function of a University to formulate the definition of a properly educated man and the schools should conform to that rule...
Invitations to attend the function have been sent to former members of the staff living in the vicinity, including Willard P. Gerrsh, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and the first observer; and H. Helm Clayton, who was in immediate charge of the observational work from 1886 to 1908. It is expected that there will be present a representative of the United States Weather Bureau, and some members of the Board of Overseers committee to visit the observatory...
...American government, whether Federal, State, or Municipal. It has the added advantage of presenting a possible entree to public work other than that offered by politics or the Civil Service. If the committee which will be responsible for placing students in their second year of internship could expand its function in an endeavor to assure them employment on completion of their study, the plan will assume a significance impossible to determine at so early a date...