Word: functions
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...incentive to others to join the clubs. Hardly any field of college activity promises so much in return for steady application as does debating. There are few men indeed who can not expect to attain a reasonable proficiency in this kind of speaking, if they choose to try. The function of the clubs in the lower classes is to supply the opportunity, and they are well fitted to furnish preliminary training and to act as a school for future 'Varsity debaters...
Such an organization under a thoroughly competent leader can influence what might otherwise prove abortive attempts at charitable endeavor, and it is in the exercise of its function of directing individual effort along the most beneficial lines that the committee has proved most efficient. Those who have joined in the work have the satisfaction of knowing that they have brought credit on themselves, the committee and their University. Let their fellows who for various reasons can not or do not take an active part, lend the workers a pecuniary hand at least, for the most serious check on the committee...
Harvard Religious Union. The Moral Function of the Teacher. Mr. C. A. Wheeler '99. Parlors of the First Parish Church...
Harvard Religious Union. The Moral Function of the Teacher. Mr. C. A. Wheeler '99. Parlors of the First Parish Church...
...Gordon said: The supreme function of Christianity is the increase in righteousness of life. You who have passed here four years of your life must have often asked yourselves, "What is the greatest thing in this world" And after these years of questionings, the conclusion is forced upon you, that it is the duty of each man to see to it that his own life shall rise to its greatest spiritual height...