Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present time the only two units which the University has in active function, serving food, are the Freshman Halls and the Union. The Freshman Halls are at last a credit to the University, having risen from the state in which bad management early placed them. The Union, although it has the monopoly of non-club trade, including all the schools of the University located in Cambridge or perhaps because of that fact continues with a menu suitable for an occasional meal, horrible for a diet...
...rooms. Then, as has been seen, the University, though it hers at last raised the standards of the Freshman Halls tends toward a poor, often purely stupid system of dietetics. Instead of having a capable staff here at Harvard whose training and experience alike fit them for the function of superintending the University dining halls, there is at best a group of former or potential hotel managers and chefs, decidedly of the old school. There are certainly enough skilled at this kind of work who can be obtained for service here...
...When had any "boy" asked for a similar interview and been refused? What would the other "boys" have thought if one of their number had "scooped" the rest? And after all, was not the "boys' " prime function that of reporting the President's official, not his personal, history...
...often woe fully ignorant of even the pressing problems of their institutions. They employ officers and condone methods which they never would tolerate in their own enterprises. They inter fere in the conduct of business and meddle in professional matters and still wonder why their hospitals do not function efficiently and why they have difficulty in securing the right type of personnel. "The remedy is obvious but not always easily applied. Boards of trustees should determine policies and concern themselves chiefly in employing a great, competent executive who can be trusted to exercise authority and responsibility and whose advice...
...third steed of university administration added--then his faculty government might appear equally necessary. And last if he could only match that famous line concerning youth's lack of knowledge, and age's lack of strength, he might convince undergraduates at Harvard that they have an active, legislative function in university administration...