Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office where permanent files of correspondence, records of meetings, and reports, could be kept has been felt for some time. It is also hoped that by having a permanent headquarters available to any Undergraduate by telephone throughout the year, the Council will be performing more fully its function as representative of the student body. Provision will be made whereby any message designed for the Student Council may be taken by the secretary of Phillips Brooks House and relayed to the officer concerned...
...that eight additional men could be accommodated without materially increasing the size of the Council; (4) to appoint half the House chairmen for one half year, and the other half for the other half year; (5) to make the present unofficial meeting of the House chairmen an official additional function of the Council (6) to elect one man from each House to serve on both the House Committee and the Council...
...manufacturing industries, and in the same breath talk about banks, advertising agencies, and publishing houses. They know that some people work in factories and that other people sell things, but they imagine that the factory people are dirty and ignorant and that the salesmen are back-slapping parasites whose function is to force their customers to buy things they neither need nor want. The unfortunate clerk who pores over his account books from dawn to dusk is in a blind alley and the slave of his work. "These", says the senior, "are not the things I want to do; surely...
...reduce these fantasies to practical terms and to bring some order to the confused thinking and bewilderment of the undergraduate who is "going into business" is a basic function of the Alumni Placement Office. For two reasons college men seeking employment in business and industry should see clearly what their opportunities are and choose intelligently among them. First is fitness for the job and the rewards which come from satisfactory placement. Any reasonably intelligent and personable college man can do many jobs well; he cannot, however, do every jobs well. A thorough and systematic appraisal of business and industrial opportunities...
...Court, or even serious political attack upon the Court. Admitting even that the Court is often a nuisance to legislators who would reform present the social system at once, there can be no doubt but that this is exactly what the majority of the people conceive to be the function of the court...