Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This function has never been filled by any body before the formation of the Committee. The Council was prompted to form such a board by the-need for some means of representing to the Administration the needs of the students, especially in the important question of tenure and the selection of teachers for permanent appointment...
Most members of I Am are female, middle-aged, and well-to-do, according to Miller. They travel around the country in large yellow Chryslers, which serve the double function of comfortable conveyances and religious observance. For believers in I Am are convinced that yellow and white are good colors, while purple is a wicked one. It seems that every person has an invisible white light hanging constantly over him, which is repelled by a purple ray generated by his evil and impure thoughts. Apparently the ownership of a yellow Chrysler helps you to live cleanly...
...Council discussed the question of policy with Bingham last night but declined to comment on any conclusions they may have reached since their function is purely advisory and, therefore, confidential...
...thorniest problems facing the field is how to keep down the size of sections. Professor Sorokin handles fifty students in his Sociology A section, which has grown too large and unwieldy to function properly as a section. This situation comes as a result of last year's budget cut as well as the field's increased enrollment...
...best. However healthy it is that they should arise, their effectiveness is sure to be hurt because they are locking the stable door after the horse, in the form of a brilliant educator, has already departed along with his horse sense. Quite obviously the Council's committee must function in cooperation with the Faculty and the Administration, enunciating the students' views on broad trends as well as particular details of curriculum and tenure, and making it clear in every case before it's too late. No such medium has heretofore existed in the University...