Word: functions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting to be held in Sanders Theatre next week to promote the religious interests of the University is opportunely called. A clear statement of the organization and function of the different societies, if given under such circumstances, will add to their repute, dignity and influence. For this purpose alone, the meeting would be justified. Yet we understand that this is but a secondary object, and that the primary object is to point out the need of philanthropic enterprise on the part of the students, and to show the present possibility of effectual work of that kind. Both the need...
...teaching of them seems in the way to get more than its fitting share. I insist only that in our college courses this should be a separate study, and that, good as it is in itself, it should, in the scheme of general instruction, be restrained to its own function as the guide to something better. And that something better is Literature. Let us rescue ourselves from what Milton calls "these grammatic flats and shallows." The blossoms of language have certainly as much value as its roots; for if the roots secrete food and thereby transmit life to the plant...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences bear their testimony also to the dignity, fairness, patience and sound judgement with which President Eliot has invariably discharged the difficult duties of the chair. In his function as moderator of debate, in the presentation of his own views, and in the appointment of committees, he has made it his constant aim to have all opinions justly represented, and to secure the consideration of every important question from all reasonable points of view. He has endured, without flinching, the most wearisome prolongations of debate. He has never left a doubt in any mind...
...Venice Christianity was looked upon rather as a civic function than as the ruling influence in life. Her inhabitants were too proud and self-minded to consider anything seriously but their own prosperity and elevation. The paintings of Venice were not therefore intended to instruct in the gospel, but were rather representative of the actual city life, which was material and majestic. Commerce was what built up the city and maintained it in luxury, and on the whole it is natural that its art should show a development cerresponding to its surroundings...
Such beliefs, it seems to us, promise much good. It is not the function of universities simply to give a few men knowledge, but rather to fit these few men to be the means of making knowledge possible for many people. The university is not to create an intellectual class, but is to intellectualize the whole country. The temptation is very great for college men of intellectual inclinations to be receptive and not expansive. Shut off for four years from the needs of the world, they learn to consult simply their own needs. The result is seen...