Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would undertake for a moment to belittle the value of graduate schools, or to assert that new buildings are to the life of a college as nothing; but there is a very real danger here that the perspective on the true function of a university will be curiously distorted. If the present trend is allowed to continue unchecked, the university of the future will be little more than a collection of highly specialized technical schools, with somewhere in an out of the way corner the attenuated ghost of what was once a college of the liberal arts...
...writer, in short, states one view of the function of college very clearly, a view which one fears is shared by many another reminiscent Senior. To them it is essentially a four year long draught from the bowl of information. But information is not knowledge, and knowledge can seldom be found in an undergraduate card-index. One might say that the adjustments which a Freshman makes whether in methods of study or more subtle ways of thinking, are a vital part of that carefully supervised development for four years which constitutes college life...
...type of narrative. It is apparently an attempt to treat news articles by the standards of fiction. In a sense there is ample justification for this attitude. It is the newspaper man's business to vivify and dramatize news, within the scope of Truth. Several notable examples of this function include the Pulitzer Prize story of the eclipse of the sun and a story of photographing the nucleus of a helium atom...
...Function of a Literary Journal...
...question which springs up at such hours of stimulation regards the function of a college literary journal. Should a magazine attempt to make itself one of the powers, throwing forth discussions of curriculum or discipline, urging reformations where progress appears to demand them? Or should it confine itself to "imaginative writing", as youth may conceive that gratulatory phrase? The position in which literary journals find themselves, especially in colleges like our own, where competition presses in every field except the purely imaginative (or purely imitative, as it often turns out) compels the reformer to labor under difficulties. The literary journal...