Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great majority of animal and plant species. But Dr. Noble, contemplating Whitey, guessed that possibly not more than one like her could be found among millions of pond frogs. Naturalists believe most "pale frogs" are not true albinos but are pale because a pituitary defect impedes the function of their black pigment cells and not because the cells themselves are lacking. When such albinotic frogs are given injections of pituitrin, they turn dark almost at once...
...wholesale producer of electric energy is Hydro. It sells to a few big private users but its most important function is supplying power, service and advice to some 700 Ontario towns & cities at cost. The municipalities in turn sell power to ultimate consumers over their own local distributing system, also at cost. Founded in 1906 by Act of Parliament, Hydro is financed by the Provincial Government but not subsidized except in rural electri-fication-a minor item. Its bonds are being amortized, so that eventually the municipalities will, in effect, own all Hydro's great plants and transmission lines...
Tomorrow at 12 the Vagabond will journey to Emerson F to hear Professor Whitehead lecture on The Function of Reason...
David V. Widder '20, associate professor of Mathematics, was also given a fellowship. Professor Widder intends to study the relations between the general theory of function space and the theory of Laplace integrals, abroad...
...requirements by passing certain College Boards. Confusion on this point can be avoided only if these honor students are assigned Advisors thoroughly familiar with Language Requirements, the courses offered by various departments, and whose special task it is to see to their charges' welfare throughout their first year--a function which the average Advisor is incapable of filling...