Word: functional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hardly the function of the college to use its degree bestowing power in such manner as either to help or overthrow any politician. Its officers have nothing to do with Butler's chances at the polls, or with his popularity as a demagogue. Their duty is simply to see that the university suffers no damage as an institution of learning and a teacher of morals. It is dedicated to "Christo et Ecclesiae," and has "Veritas" for the motto on its coat-of-arms; and what has Butler to do with Christ and His Church or with "Truth?" If it discovers...
...operate with it in the United States, by receiving and distributing in this country the telegraphic information sent from Kiel, and by forwarding to Kiel by telegraph any similar information of importance collected from American astronomers. By the courtesy of Prof. Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the function hitherto performed by the institution, of collecting and transmitting announcements of discovery, has been transferred to the Harvard College Observatory. American astronomers are requested to send to the "Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass.," telegraphic information of discoveries of comets, asteroids, or phenomena of any kind requiring immediate attention...
Divinity Chapel was comfortably well filled last evening by those assembled to hear Mr. Justin Winsor's lecture on the "Function of a Library in a Community of Professional Students." Our libraries, said Mr. Winsor, are yet in a transition state, although a marked improvement has taken place in the past century. The people are beginning to realize the value of a library as a leading agent in the education of the masses, and the result is that the restrictions which marked its earlier stages have been to a great extent done away with. Although the collections...
Divinity Hall Lectures. Subject : "The Function of a Library in a Community of Professional Students." Justin Winsor, librarian, Divinity Chapel...
Thirdly, if the professor cannot remain during the examination, let him coach a proctor on the questions of the paper; or else let us have a proctor whose specialty lies in the subject of the paper. Not that his function would be treacherously assistive, but conservatively explicative. I remember how at the admission examination they gave me Pierce's table of logarithms, which was entirely different from old six-place table I had used. I could do nothing with it, and so I asked a proctor to explain it. I was very much shocked when he explained to me that...