Word: functions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalistic profession that its stock with the reading public has fallen far. "It will take a chastened and informed effort to restore it," he declares, adding, "in very few spots is there any evidence of such an effort or even a recognition of its need." Reporters forfeited their function to the crystal-gazers. Worse, those newsmen who doubted the certainty of the polls "failed to express their doubts, partly by their intoxication with the accepted certainty; and partly, one may suspect, because they doubted that their papers would welcome a dissenting report...
...that the school is taking the place of the frontier as a means of social mobility in American society," he said. "Once it was, 'Go west young man!' Now a young man looks to education to improve himself. Schools are a national responsibility. I do not see how their function is inconsistent with some centralization...
Four talks on "Function--Fitness to Purpose" highlight the afternoon session at 2:30 p.m. today. The evening meeting will discuss "Form--Structure and Shape," and tomorrow will be devoted to lectures on "Style--Individual Expression" and "Prospect--An Extensive View." There will be 14 different speakers...
...important function of such a graduate commons project will be that of widening the intellectual life of the graduate student at Harvard," President Conant said. "Lawyers, architects, students of divinity, future secondary school teachers, scientists, historians, and public servants should all be mixed up together...
...minimum of five dollars for each child; and the poorer states were scheduled to get more--up to nearly 30 dollars per head in Mississippi. Taft figured that he had the biggest bugaboo whipped--federal "dictatorship" in the little red schoolhouse. He said, in debate: "The only function of the federal government would be that of an auditor.... It will have no more to say about the exact method by which education shall be administered...