Word: functionings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...earliest of the essays, "On the Study of Politics," an admirable confession of faith, goes back to 1926, and the latest, "The English Constitution and French Public Opinion, 1789-1794," is of 1938. The intervening studies, "Law and Justice in Soviet Russia," "The Judicial Function," "The Committee System in English Local Government," "Nationalism and the Future of Civilization," and "Mr. Justice Holmes," as well as the title essay, show the author's brilliant, liberal mind attacking a wide variety of problems. In only one case--the "Nationalism" speech--has he found it necessary to make some additions...
...faced. For the concentration-distribution fight is more than a University Hall bicker about the technical requirements for a degree; it is a questioning of the very nature of the peculiar concoction known as a "liberal education." Harvard is not merely investigating itself; it is groping for the function and meaning of the whole educational process...
...liberal arts college finds itself frustrated, its own indecision about its proper function is to blame. Should it merely broaden the student's cultural background, or should it give him a thorough training in a special field? The liberal arts college does not know; it attempts both and succeeds in neither...
...course the clubs are in function fraternities but would you deny those whose station or intelligence merit it, association with one another and away from those who have espoused Radical or rather Communistic ideas. Even the illiterate and ignorant unite in some form of organization, student unions, labor groups and as revolutionists. Why should not intelligence have its own temple and its own freedom of action...
...qualifications of these vocational groups or guilds . . . are that they are autonomous, embrace whole industries and professions, are federated with other constituent groups, possess the right of free organization, assembly and vote, and that they should dedicate them selves to the common good and with governmental protection and assistance function in the establishment of justice and the general welfare in economic life...