Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed to admit deaconesses to the priesthood. In other words, women are to be given Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church. A most egregious blunder. In the first place, a deaconess is not in Holy Orders as a deacon is, and is not "ordained" to her office or function but is "set apart." In the Episcopal Church there are but three orders of Ministers-Bishops, Priests, Deacons-and these are confined to male persons who may be found qualified...
Bishop Murray will remove shortly to Manhattan, where he will function, ex officio, as President of the National Council. His salary was fixed at $15,000, although the Deputies wanted to make it $18,000, and he is allowed $5,000 for expenses...
...organization of your Committee itself is too well known to require explanation, but the system of its Graduate Advisory Committees was revised so recently (December, 1924) that a brief exposition of their position and their function may be advisable...
...really is a world gas forty seven billion times less dense than hydrogen, four thousand times smaller than hydrogen buibles. And its function is the connecting of all sorts of planets and prophets and worlds and worms. Faster than light, it has evaded the searchers of the past and has such evanescent qualities even now that Captain See sees it as a colossal a formidable Nothing...
Harvard is fortunate in having many tutors who perform their true function, and to them is due the splendid success and almost universal approval the tutorial system has met with among students. But so long as a single tutor remains content to regard himself as one in kind with the hirelings of tutoring schools, the tutorial system at Harvard will fall short of its fullest service as an instrument in education; and the majority of unfortunates who go to such a tutor will continue to regard the divisional examinations as an added hurdle to be got over...