Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phillips Brooks House Committee, similar in function to its textbook loan library but dealing instead with works of art, has recently been established. The idea for the new committee was conceived by Richard N. Swift '44, president...
...House of Morgan also acted as purchasing agents for the British and the French-a function fulfilled in this war by the Anglo-French Purchasing Board. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, purchasing was turned over to the U.S. Government, which also took responsibility for further loans to the Allies. Up to 1917, Morgan's played the same role the Roosevelt administration did in 1939-41, in helping the Allies "short...
...Regeneration is no theological formula. It is a function of spiritual progress-a part of the evolutionary spiritual growth of the race. That repentance is needed now for rebirth ... to lessen its load of sin. Sin is only unneighborly conduct. Democracy's rebirth will be hard, most ungodly hard. But enslavement would be harder. We have no other alternative. We must conquer by heroic self-denial or be conquered by ruthless force. World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye. He must go through. He must bend...
Psychologically speaking, the tendency for a student to return to Harvard after the war is over is a function of the length of time that the man participates in the war, explained Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology yesterday...
...addition to the function of the length of the war, another psychological factor which influences the return of the soldier to Harvard is a natural tension to continue what has not yet been completed. Each normal individual doesn't like to see things left up in the air, and a Harvard education is not the exception to the rule...