Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...select officials for the Harvard-Yale football game, says that this step, coupled with such a one as the formation in recent years of an eastern basketball league, "shows a tendency towards a single goal-an eastern conference". Such an organization would, according to the Daily, perform the same function as the Big Ten Conference; its power would eventually become as great and its unity as strong...
...however, the University's aim is admittedly to gather a body of students which shall be truly national, having no essential bonds with the New England locale except those of a fine and honorable past. "Not the insular function of a provincial university whose duty is to the youth of that area, but the wider function of a center of learning open to all those in the land who are best fitted to work under her guidance--that is the difficult role which is now Harvard's"--so, wrote the CRIMSON last year, commenting on the University's pamphlet concerning...
...upon the heels of that announcement, the British Broadcasting Co. sent news over the cables that Sir Henry Wood, ubiquitous concert generalissimo, was to perform a like function for the radio millions of England...
...smallish town, such as Des Moines was in 1881, of which the essential function is to serve a surrounding population of farmers, it is hard to discover what types of higher education are really in demand. Drake, organized as a nonsectarian, co-educational plant, began by borrowing the six-year-old Law School of Simpson College at nearby Indianola, Iowa, and absorbing a five-year-old Iowa Medical College. These, plus a Liberal Arts School, made Drake a "university." In 1882 a department of pharmacy was added. In 1887, the Iowa College of Physicians was affiliated and the next year...
Women of Germany who, since the War, have been like ants hungering for livelihood, last week tore down the prejudices of the German Evangelical Church against women preachers. The General Synod, at Berlin, decided to permit women to be ordained, but with restrictions. They may function only so long as they remain unmarried. They may lead religious services for children and teach Bible classes of girls; may perform work akin to that of U. S. social workers-welfare work in prisons, almshouses, pesthouses and refuges for the aged. They may not officiate at marriages, funerals, baptisms, deaths. Clergywomen...