Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more limited in his prospects of positions. Men who go up vague, and remain vague, as to their ultimate aims are at a loss when they graduate for employment: but the knowledge that the university is orientated towards the learned professions to a large extent has a selective function. The high, school boy to make a rash generalization only turns to the university for the specialized purposes for which it is known to exist; if they do not suit him he goes straight into business or to a business school instead, for only for a small minority does college follow...
...where we stand. The New Deal was not an issue in the 1932 campaign and this has been the first chance that the country has had to voice its approval or disapproval. Secondly, we are confronted with the practical annihilation of the Republican party which should be fulfilling the function of an opposition. As a result, all valid criticism of policies must come from within the Democratic party...
Sappho was thought unladylike not so much because of her personal habits as because of the poetry she wrote. But Sappho has many a sister in these westering years. Since poets generally discarded their priestlike function for that of self-mindreaders, women have flocked to join the profession and some of them have gone to the head, or near it, of their respective specialties. Last week two U. S. lady poets, whom repute places high above the ruck of feminine poetasters, smote their lyres in unison...
There is no place in the modern world for a church which clings resolutely to a point of view so typically medieval. Indeed, the current experience in Russia proves conclusively that unless the church does perform a definitely progressive function in contemporary society, its continued existence is extremely precarious. When the bishops of one of the leading American sects fail to appreciate the moral fortitude which has characterized the attitude of the people during the last five tragic years, when they allow Hollywood and Reno to blind them to the beneficial social legislation which has been written...
...tribunal, disinterested and acquainted with the main issues, before whom the State Department must justify, must rationalize its policies, while the research and publicity bureaus which the Foreign Policy supports place an added check on the Departments arbitrary action. The more intelligent state officials appreciate the value of this function, much as judges depend upon and respond to continuous scrutiny from an alert and interested bar. For obviously the officials must act and frame policies whether disinterested outsiders watch or care...