Word: functioning
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Neither Loker nor the plans for a new center recognize that to function as a common ground a physical space must be integrated with the rhythms of the community it serves. Loker shows that we Harvard students do not want to go off to a special room or building to relax. Only during lunch does Loker have the feel of a bustling campus center where you chat with friends and classmates; the Fly-By system integrates the Memorial Hall basement into the habits and daily cycles of enough students to make it worth a visit. Without such an integration...
...slavery in Africa was an important method of recruitment for the kinship group ? and the kin group was perhaps more important than the individual as the basic unit of society. Slaves conferred prestige both to the group and the individual owner. Slaves were expected to labor, but their main function was not, or not only, economic. More important, as a member of a kin group, albeit one that might be exploited or sacrificed, a slave had status in society and could begin to acquire some elements of "insidership" almost from the start. Slave status in most societies was in fact...
...cannot understand this mind-set today, that, difficult as it is, we have to attempt to distance ourselves from modern values. If we do not do so, we will not come to understand how such things could happen, and if historians can't do this, then they have no function beyond story tellers...
...work in the Russian capital markets. But the suit underscores the need to reexamine institutions that, while indirectly under the University's auspices, have a distinctly non-academic purpose. In particular, such institutions tend to drain resources that could otherwise be directed toward Harvard's core educational function...
...learned in Canton to develop the Rural Studio. Mockbee sees the studio, which is financed by the university and such philanthropic groups as the Alabama Power Foundation, as a way to train a new generation of students in his belief that "architecture is a social art. It has to function in an ethical, moral way to help people...