Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson are able to stop the above-mentioned hearties, they will still have to reckon with Vin Else, Broberg's running mate at forward. These two lads played together as Freshmen last year, and they form a fine combination. They function together so well, in fact, that veteran Joe Cottone has been delegated to a second-string position. Else has not collected as many points as his colleague, but he has the uncanny ability to toss in a few baskets just when Broberg cannot find the range...
...lose him if it were not for personal and administrative considerations, the issue clearly goes beyond these and raises the question of the department's general attitude toward the teaching of this subject. To this question no complete and dogmatic answer can be given which would invalidate its entire function. The department is highly esteemed in this country and abroad for its sound scholarship and within the University it adequately provides instruction in that cultural curiosity, but, perhaps, necessity-"appreciation...
...first intimation of a stiffer policy came when a new watchman, whose function it is to watch Hemenway Gymnasium, refused to wink at the students' time honored tendency to regard the 7 o'clock deadline for cocktail parties as a more rough idea of when festivities should be called...
Dean Holmes annual report is a significant educational doctrine. For it has logically and comprehensively stated the case for Graduate Schools of Education as training grounds for teachers. Such schools have two separate functions. They train educational administrators whose sole function will be formulation of general educational policy. They also train individual Latin and History teachers in the science of teaching. This first function is generally admitted. The second is almost generally denied...
Designed, in the words of Dean John H. Williams, head of the school, as a "means to bring the University and the Public Service nearer together," the new center will fill a dual function as a training field for graduate students in the social sciences and as a research institution for men already doing government administrative work...