Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artists, and a few scientists, the hand is as revealing as the face in expressing temperament, heredity, life habits, glandular function. One such scientist, Dr. Charlotte Wolff, physician and psychologist, last week gave her second summary of findings in the science of chirology. In The Human Hand (Alfred A. Knopf, $3) she carried on her rescue of the hand from the hocus-pocus of palmistry and fortunetelling, gave laymen some interesting reading as well...
...arts college. This announcement has been for a long time inevitable. In a program that is primarily one of war training there is little time to publish the Crimson; indeed, there is small place for it in a college of uniforms. The need of news reporting remains, and this function will be performed by the Harvard Service News...
...believe that the Crimson has had a unique and necessary role at Harvard. This role has become obsolete with war, but we pledge ourselves that with the rebuilding of the College will come a new Crimson dedicated to the same function...
...basic issue was at stake. To perform its function of directing production, management has to have not only officers but noncommissioned officers, just as much as an army does. But in most industries foremen, although they still direct production, no longer directly exercise the power to hire & fire. For this reason, apparently, NLRB last year decided that foremen are just a special grade of skilled labor and entitled to the privileges of labor...
There are, indeed, specific problems to be met. But the liberal arts need no Harvard committee to be assured of continuation; they have always had, and will always have a sound function. From their study men have gained a sensitive response to the best that has been thought and said, a deep historical perspective which arms against contemporary problems, and a strengthening intellectual discipline. Liberal education is not at an end. It is stalled, and the present tragic interval in its growth has at least this much of good: everywhere it is under scrutiny. That scrutiny should lead...