Word: function
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...primary object of the association is to promote the feeling of mutual confidence and good fellowship, and the better to carry this out each member stands ready to assume a specific function, namely, the giving of information with regard to Harvard to any member of the fraternity, proposing to come here. Members at present are mostly in the graduate department, and are therefore well fitted to do this...
Professor Drummond went on to speak of the theory of evolution. Everything in this life is kept up by the death of things around it, and it is to this function of reproduction in nature that all happiness in the world is due. The fruits of the earth are the fruits of reproduction, all beauty in the world comes along the line of reproduction. We live by what this function has done...
...speeches will at once gain the particular practice to which they are entitled as members, and will make the standard of speaking such that the college men at large will be attracted to the meetings both as listeners and possible participators. At the same time, the Union fulfils its function of a University debating society by having an opportunity for all members of the University to speak after the principal disputants. We understand that, in this general debate, members of the Union and outsiders will be on equal terms; and this is good, both because it will prevent ill-feeling...
...wants, the loss of which would perhaps mean beggary to him, and he might suffer and die sooner than give it up. It is curious to think how true this is of every member of the hurrying crowds we see around us every day; each with his small function in the world, and each with his fear for something, the loss of which would mean beggary to him. "Be master of thyself" and no material loss can then mean anything...
...remedy this evil, we must first understand the positive side of the question and this involves a knowledge of the real function of marriage. Marriage, as a modern institution is the result of a gradual evolution from many forms of living. First there was the patriarchal in which man asserted absolute superiority over woman, and captured as many wives as he could. Next came the matriarchal, an inevitable reaction from the former, in which marriage by capture was succeeded by marriage through captivation. Then came the union of one man with one woman for life, but against this the great...