Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That education should take for its purpose the development of a critical faculty in the student through the use of books is the dominating theme of Mr. Hoffman's speech. "It is the function of education to make the mind more capable of penetrating judgment. If actuality is avoided and so not understood by the academic erudite, the very sphere in which he lives loses significance; his world becomes impotable and unsubstantial...
...system set up on the stage behind Sever Hall and begins his career as a donor of degrees, it is highly probable that he will first of all make the presentation to President-emeritus Lowell. With dignified mien and stately poise, Harvard's former president, who well remembers the function which will then be performed by his successor, will be once again honored by the University which he served for 24 years...
...magistrate's bench unquestionably has formulated his own position concerning this most difficult ethical problem. Before his judicial vision unfolds more than seven-hundred years of British Common Law. The pillars of his chambers rest upon it; Coke, and Hyde, and Blackstone, are not strangers to him, nor the function of evidence and the rights of the accused. The Boston Traveler, however, is a conservative paper. Outside of occasional seventy-two point streamers on its front page it can be relied on for that streamy stability which constitutes Boston journalism...
...created. Its raison deter is thus a lack of agreement between the Masters, many of whom now protest that they have not sufficient freedom of choice. Ideally, the Central Committee should be abolished, but since this is apparently impractical, human nature being what it is, the Committee's function should be merely that of a referee board. It should draw up a set of general rules for the Masters to follow in their choice of students, and if the Masters are unable to abide by them, the Committee should then, but only then, assume control. The Committee has been...
There is an important function for such an organization within the University and that is the expression and formulation of opinion upon problems that are vital to the student's collective interests. But as its activities are carried on now there is no opportunity provided to assure that the opinions set forth by the Council are representative of student opinion at large. The men elected are usually those who are best known about the University, men who have been active in athletics or other extra-curricular activities. They do not necessary represent the views of those who voted for them...