Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courts of Massachusetts. Under our system a lawsuit is not an independent, scientific investigation for the discovery of truth, but is an adversary proceeding. The court has no facilities for making impartial investigations. The machinery for the administration of justice does not, and from its very nature cannot, function perfectly. In criminal cases the de- Instead of blasting off 30 feet of matrix from above the bone layer, we went half way up the cliff and arched in a hole about seven by ten feet. Then we removed the matrix down to the bones and chopped a ditch around...
...thus widening its scope to the fields of current opinion and criticism the Advocate fulfills a new function of great potential value to the University without necessarily discarding its traditional role as a literary medium. The University has always had two faithful attendants who have been frank and unfailing in their critical endeavors. The Jester has ever been on hand as an antidote to undue seriousness, the Journalist has agitated, attacked, and decried. But for measured debate, for lengthy review, and for thoughtful satire the opportunities have been limited. The advent here of the Advocate must be an occasion...
Assuming none the less that vocational training is the sole function of most American colleges, he hastily concludes that the best preparation for an active business life is frenzied outside activity in college. Granting that some few undergraduate organizations approximate the conditions found in actual business life, it is difficult to see how the usual ad-getting sweatshirt gathering competition shapes one for the executive chair of a large corporation. It is much easier to believe the figures of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the value of a sound background of collegiate study for success in the business...
...many panaceas proposed of recent years towards alleviating the ills of the college few obtained as general support as the "scholastic aptitude" tests which were made part of the admission requirements in many universities. At one of these, Amherst, investigations were made to determine whether they really fulfilled their function of predicting scholastic ability any better than the usual entrance examinations, and after a six year period the results are decidedly negative. Comparison of the test results with the records made by the men in college show that in no case did the two show more than a fifty...
...Since Prohibition, the consumption of sugar in the United States has increased tremendously and as a result of the strain on the pancreatic function, diabetes has become a more prevalent disease. Diabetes is not a prominent disease in the aged, but it is particularly true in the diabetes of old age that alcohol has a useful and prominent place in the treatment of the disease...