Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...function of House dances is not to provide copy for Boston gossip columns nor to compete with Boston night clubs. It is to create throughout the year an inexpensive and congenial social season for House members and their friends. This can best be done by limiting the size and cost of dances and possibly increasing their number...
...minority whom such an arrangement would not please fall into two camps. For those who would like the drawing power of a large social function to attract distant damsels, a class dance still remains a possibility. Those, on the other hand, who disdainfully mutter "Corn!" at the mention of a small orchestra, can get more jitters per dollar in Boston, where hot spots, in addition to good bands, alcohol and floor shows, have the virtue of being out of earshot from Cambridge...
...importance of the Central Committee in assigning men must not be over-emphasized. It will not seek out men who are too shy to let a Housemaster know how good they are. The Committee's chief function is to take the names of the men not admitted by the House of their first choice and bring these names to the attention of under-applied Houses, with the end in view of aiding Housemasters to achieve an approximate cross-section
...only is Mr. Rubenstein's exhibition a successful one, but in its presentation its sponsors have hit upon a valuable function of the House common room. Informality is the essence of the show. The undergraduate can sip coffee and converse at the same time as he enjoys Mr. Rubenstein's work, and surely this is the truest spirit of art, not forced upon one stiffly from museum walls, but blended into normal and everyday surroundings...
...future? It would seem best to abolish elections positively and definitely. There will probably be attempts to revive them in some form or other-one proposal being that the Yardlings should elect their Jubilee and Smoker Chairmen, these men to perform a definite function. This eliminates one cardinal objection: that officers were elected as meaningless figure-heads. It still falls before the greater objection that men are necessarily chosen on the basis of a distored, perverted set of values. Perhaps the millenium will arrive when Freshmen awake from their indifference, when they desire democracy earnestly enough to instil a genuine...