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...Church were going into a state of disruption. Fortunately, these surface disturbances are hardly typical of the whole body of church goers. Religion is still an unquestioned part of the lives of an overwhelming though silent majority of the population. The Church continues to be a necessary function of society. The question of who is right or wrong in the New York controversy is of minor importance. The mere fact that so much popular interest has been roused, and that the newspapers have found it worth their while to give it so much space, is the most encouraging evidence that...
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Crimson Building, Mr. R. S. Durstine, one of the heads of Barton, Durstine and Osborn, one of the country's leading advertising agencies, will speak on "The Function of the Advertising Agency". This will be the first of a series of lectures on the advertising business which will be given at the CRIMSON on successive Tuesdays, under the auspices of the CRIMSON and the Lampoon. These lectures will be open to all members of University publications, and to men connected with the advertising and marketing courses of the Business School...
...College needs a clearing house for ideas. The Arts might easily fill this function. It might even bring about the "revival" that has been called for, Some things can be accomplished over cake and tea that are impossible to toast-side and coffee. The Dartmouth...
...Commencement many years ago Lord Playfair quoted the saying that the function of the two great English universities was to teach men to spend, that of the Scotch universities to teach them to earn, an income respectably; and he added that American universities existed for both of those objects. This cryptic remark might be the subject of endless discussion. The aim of the American college should be, not to give its students the technical training and tools of their future occupation, but rather to fit them to be citizens, to develop those qualities that lead to the better life both...
...seems to me that if there is one essential part of the Harvard System that deserves praise for its great work during not only the past season but during the past ten seasons, it is that function which is taken care of by the managers...