Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make soldiers that we are giving military training, but soldiers in the sense that we consider them in this country. The main function of the military man is to keep out of war. Here at Harvard we have no drill, no compulsory military training. We teach a man purely theoretically the science of war. We teach him to be a good citizen. In fact some college courses formerly were used in the military department to teach military history...
...that bit of copy had made no reference to the New York Times believing that it had sprung from the forehead of the News editor. The New Haven correspondent of the New York Times seized upon it and wired it to Manhattan. Thus it reached the individuals who function on the telegraph desk of the Times. They were interested. A very well-written little article. So that was what Yale thought of Harvard, of Princeton, of itself, eh? In the morning, readers...
What would happen to our efforts if every country insisted on making a World Court follow the practice of its own Supreme Court? Senator Borah says that this advisory function reduces the Court to the position of a legal advisor to the Council and subjects it to political influence. I have searched the record of the four years' work and the eighteen cases already handled and I have not found the slightest foundation for such a statement. The Council has its own legal advisers. I myself have served in the legal section of its Secretariat, and I know something...
...judgement this advisory function makes the Court far more useful than it would be without it. It is far less subject to Mr. Borchard's criticism that it only deals with things that do not matter. I think it would be robbed of fully half of its capacity for service if it were deprived of this power. I see no objection to President Coolidge's suggestion that the United States state that it will not be bound by advisory opinions. That would be true anyway. No state is bound. They are advisory. But I hope the Senate will...
...Yale News concurring. What should be a sport has become an arduous grind, endured by most of the players only because college loyalty demands the sacrifice as no less a luminary of the gridiron than George Owen declared of late in the Independent. What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged in it to the notoriety of gladiators and matadors. What should be strictly amateur in spirit has taken on strange aspects of professionalism: the season's gate receipts are welcomed as financing less sensational sports, sometimes even squash courts...