Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Government's reception was an evening function in the Great Hall of the House of Lords. Premier Baldwin, pipe in pocket, fanned the fires of Anglo-American friendship. Ambassador Houghton sought to bank the same fires with the broad hint: "I would remind my countrymen that good men are scarce and that they will soon be needed at home...
...boards of both banks, and Arthur Reynolds, younger by three years and president of both. Practically, the same banks were one Continental & Commercial institution; legally they were separate, for until the passage of the McFadden Branch Banking act by Congress last session (TIME, Jan. 31), national banks might not function as trustees. Banks incorporated under state laws might do so?a condition which drove national banks to subterfuge. They created separate incorporations of what might have been their trust departments...
...after invoking a hall of "poor loser" criticism, the bare facts remain, that undergraduate members of the University must take their chances among forty eight thousand graduates for the privilege of watching, at least from hailing distance, what is primarily an undergraduate function. A suggestion for change now can do no possible good to those who feel the burden of a present cross, but for future generations of undergraduates, as the saying goes, perhaps it will not have been suggested in vain...
...last function of Rhodes House is to serve as a gathering place for old Rhodes Scholars' returning in after years. The plans contemplate ultimately chambers in which these visitors may be housed whenever in Oxford
That element which packs lecture Lalls to the doors and which changes the function of aisles from that of pathways to that of seating space is what has been called, for want of a better term, the ability for great teaching. Where it is jacking one has courses attended by students whose attitude is complacent, uninterested and guided by other lights than the bright flame of intellectual curiosity. Where it is found there also one may find men to whom books are more than, required texts: men who have come together, almost in the ancient Greek manner, in order that...