Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are possibilities of great good resulting from the recent merger of the Advocate and the Critic. At last, Harvard may have a magazine with more than a purely literary function. Constructive criticism, in a university acknowledged to be in a transitory stage, has a value that cannot be minimized, and if the decidedly worth while purposes of the Critic are actually incorporated into future issues of the Advocate, the "well-rounded" magazine that inspired the merger will become an actuality...
...Critic and the Advocate were never ostensibly working at cross purposes. The former was created because it was felt that the latter was pursuing too limited a function. The merger will be justified if, and only if, critical material of a challenging nature is included in the Advocate, and the very fact of the merger is evidence that in the future the Advocate will appear in more generally digestible form. There is no reason why the enterprise that has in the past produced two periodicals should not result in a magazine that stimulates its renders, and offers them a wide...
...football team must read a daily such as the New York Times. Two days before the Yale game the CRIMSON fails to give more than four inches of space to the Varsity team and although the Times gives the complete starting lineup, the CRIMSON again fails in its function as a supposed news organ...
...imbecile, he knows it--that "education is for the privileged free who have money." It simply means that Williams College is not going to be an instrument for the carrying out of a government policy which its President feels will ultimately harm the future of Williams; and her function as an educational institution...
...those who feel that this is presuming upon the intelligence of the men at Harvard let it be said that as knowledge and education continue to advance so must the tenets of those educational institutions which foster learning. The primary function of a college is to turn out men educated in the best fashion that it can. There are some who feel that the best methods are those which put out many men with a standard of education which of necessity must be somewhat lower than that of the institution which graduates fewer students. Then there are those who feel...