Word: function
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...some years since this method was taken of presenting philanthropic work to undergraduates and it should aid materially this year. A wrong idea is not uncommonly held as to the function of the committee in charge. The committee's purpose is not to do the work itself--that would be easy and unprogressive--but to interest as many men as possible in the problem of helping along their less fortunate brothers and to develop an enthusiasm for these beneficial and organized movements which are working for the betterment of society...
...committee's duty, therefore, to work rapidly and quietly, and to place no delay on the formation of a working athletic program for the future. But it has a larger function, in the fulfillment of which it may do an enormous amount of good...
What has become of the various denominational political clubs that organized with such flourish not many week ago? Those organized to support particular candidates for nomination, to be sure, apparently no longer have any distinct function as the caucuses are over. But if they are to pass out of existence, should not there be an opportunity for those who so eagerly jointed them to hear the reports of their officers, to dispose of what funds there may be in the treasuries, and constitutionally to dissolve...
...life at the University has so changed in recent years that most students find no occasion whatever for rising before 8 o'clock. Why, then, should those who live within sound of this bell be subjected to a continual annoyance? The 7 o'clock clang performs no conceivable useful function and only serves to add a useless discomfort to the list that already prevails in Yard dormitories...
...college daily has become a necessity, not only for the three-quarters of the students who take a lively interest in the different sides of college life, but also for the professors and instructors, who make its columns the medium for their announcements. Its first function is to give the news. No consideration of advertising should encroach on the news. The chief effort of the editors should be to collect as much real news as possible and to present it in the most compact and orderly fashion. This seems a truism; but anyone who has read the CRIMSON for many...