Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they turned away still worried, depressed, edgy. At last their parents spotted a paragraph in the newspapers: "Grading of College Applicants Delayed. . . ." Their tension remained, but the 11,000 at least understood that the College Entrance Examination Board had not forgotten them, that it was delayed in its terrible function of correcting the nervously scribbled "books" of 22,000 would-be matriculants to Vassar, Smith, Princeton, Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, etc., owing to the facts: that the scribbling was not finished until June 21; that the 700 teachers, who correct the papers at a cost of about...
...months ago Dillon's agents had integrated the units of the German combination to make them function as a single concern. The refinancing-$60,000,000-he would supply as soon as the reorganization documents were perfected. Two weeks ago these were so near ready that he loaned the Thyssen people $5,000,000 for working capital...
...defects of much of our teaching and especially of the lecture system is that this part of the function of education is to a great degree lost from sight. An improvement in our examination system which will measure the grasp of a whole subject is, I believe the most serious advance that can be made in American education today...
TIME'S great regret is that the performance of its sole function of universal reporter occasionally brings pain to a subscriber. The article, essence of which was reported, was for many reasons (its effrontery not least) news...
...crowned his efforts to carry out his belief has, however, stilled all real objection. His belief is that the American people, and more especially college students, prefer great and lasting music to sentimental "goo," if they are given the chance to become acquainted with it. It is the function of the Harvard Glee Club, as indeed of all glee clubs, to give the colleges and the public the opportunity to hear and consequently to appreciate classic choral music. The ideal is a high one, and no wide program of education such as this was ever carried...