Word: functions
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...committed illegal acts. Membership in a "Communist political organization" or "Communist front organization" which has not registered with the Attorney-General is outlawed. Also, members of registered "Communist political organizations" could be jailed and fined under a section of the bill which outlaws acts cited as the regular function of those organizations...
...other hand, maybe the clubs just want to organize for the social contact function. If that is the case, they ought to drop their ostensible thought-provoking character, and join hands with that famous social contact group, the Carlton Club...
Claiming that the present educational philosophy toward women is "You had better be a man or take the consequences," Dr. Marynia Farnham, author of "Modern Woman: The Lost Sex," denounced educators during last night's Law Forum for their failure to teach women what their function is, and what will be demanded from them in 20th century society...
...Farnham said women's comparatively new social, political, and educational equalities tended to obscure her original function as a bearer and rearer of children. Modern woman, she said, is educated by men's standards, she knows little about family life, and when she is thrust in the middle of it she finds it a limited, stunted role...
...this age of intense competition for the best all-around students, we cannot rest upon the reputation of Harvard. Family tradition is no longer potent. Today men attend the college of their choice rather than the college of their parents. I suggest that it is a proper function of the alumni to influence that choice...