Word: functions
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...courses. The Faculty may well balk at compulsion, but if introductory area courses are available, and undergraduates are required to distribute widely in all the major areas, the courses will be virtually mandatory without the stigma of compulsion. When this is done, distribution will be restored to its proper function, and will serve to offset the over-concentration which now characterizes the average undergraduate's formal education...
...every American citizen. It is an essential element of that democratic faith which we are now bending all our energies to defend. Freedom of speech and of opinion within university communities is peculiarly necessary to the survival of our national liberties and of our civilization. It is the special function of universities to provide a place in which men may seek to discover truth by the method of free inquiry--of fearless investigation of every question which concerns mankind. These who participate in such inquiry must be free to state the conclusion which they have reached without regard to whether...
...interpreted, the statement is a denial of an essential principle which a university cannot renounce if it is to perform its proper function in our American society. For it is the special function of a university to supply the community with men who can think deeply and clearly because they are detached from the conduct of affairs and are members of a fellowship in which hard thinking and fearless statement of one's convictions are especially prized. The graver the national emergency, the greater the need for honest and courageous thinking about national problems...
...Government and industry increasingly raise problems on which the public must decide. The function of radio is to provide the vital facts upon which an intelligent decision can be based," Siepmann stated...
Three weeks ago Germany tried to fake a fait accompli. Berlin newsmen reported that the Storting had met, declared King Haakon "no longer able to function" and appointed as "Regent Without Portfolio" Ingolf Elster Christensen. The Norwegian Government in London promptly replied that Haakon had not been deposed, that the Storting had not even met. Christensen, it explained, had held the same post since the collapse of Naziphile Quisling's self-appointed premiership in April. With the consent of King Haakon he was still heading the Norwegian Administrative Committee, which acts as a sort of loose civilian government under...