Word: function
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...necessity the main function of a university always has been, and must be, teaching. It is, in a word, to bring the most highly educated youths of the time up to the limits of education. But from this there spring other functions, among which the first is research. In all advanced subjects the teacher is continually attaining the limit of that subject, and is, therefore, eager to reach out a little beyond this attained knowledge. In turn such a teacher is surrounded by eager and enthusiastic men and is certain to attract them into the research that interests...
...second function is distinctly more complicated than the previous one, yet it is no less a test of a university's activity. Johns Hopkins was the first university to begin this thing and probably saw in it the means of making itself better known. From this beginning others have sprung until our own university publishes no less than eight papers, covering every variety of scientific and literary research...
...discussion, for and against, the reduction of the requirements for the A. B. degree. As we understand it, one of the principal arguments of the opposers of the new plan is that the college should not give way to the professional schools; that Harvard College still has the same function to fulfill which it has always had, and that there are no indications that the college will not be called upon to exercise these functions to its largest extent; in other words, that there is no sign of a falling off in the number of students for the college...
...Constructive Trusts arising out of Fiduciary Relations. 3. Judicial Legislation; its Legitimate Function, if any, in the Development of the Common...
...first of the series of Historical Monographs is a discussion of "The Veto Power: Its Origin, Development and Function in the Government of the United States," by Mr. E. C. Mason, instructor in Political Economy. The monograph, the result of special research under the direction of Dr. Hart, opens with a sketch of the derivation of vetoes from the royal prerogative in England. It goes on to discuss vetoes in United States history, under the heads of vetoes affecting the form of government, the distribution of its powers, and their exercise. Each class is elaborately treated. The occasion of each...