Word: functions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the arrival of Professor Lovejoy from Seattle coupled with the appearance a few days ago of the pamphlet containing the lists of courses, rules and regulations and requirements for admission, the Cambridge School of the Drama is ready to function as an actual organization. The Board of Governors, all Harvard men, contains a brilliant roll of names well-known in the American Theatre. A considerable number of students have already enrolled, the money necessary to operate the project is assured and the other instructors have been chosen...
...Junior Prom, for years the only organized winter social function at Harvard, has been discontinued according to an announcement made last night by J. N. Trainer '31, president of the Junior Class. The decision to abandon the traditional dance came as a result of a conference with the other officers of the class and a through perusal of the records of last year's Prom committee according to Trainer...
...universal. Although there was a small group of intellectually elite who had had training abroad, the mass of the population was unlettered. Furthermore, both the peasants and the Government were poor. Then again, Haiti was made a republic and, though the plan was simple, the people were unable to function properly as citizens because they hardly knew what the word meant...
...time during the year are the reading rooms of the college library in greater demand than during the Reading Period and the examinations that immediately follow it. It would seem only natural that every measure be taken to ensure that they function at the greatest efficiency possible. And yet the fact is only too painfully apparent to all who make use of them that only the most haphazard and unsatisfactory solutions has been devised for one problem of more than slight importance--that of ventilation...
...Commission is unanimous that the wisdom or unwisdom of the 18th Amendment is not involved in their work. . . . The function of the Commission is to devise the best means possible for its enforcement. ... All seem to view the industrial alcohol situation as the most difficult one to solve. . . . The Prohibition phase of the Commission's work can be done within three or four months . . . completed by July 1 at the latest. . . . Expert studies may be desirable . . . but these investigations should not be too prolonged or detailed...