Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many cases and have then flaunted their immunity before the sympathies of a sentimental public. Loeb and Leopold were the most conspicuous recent examples. In the face of such a growing tendency to escape just punishment it was indeed high time the courts once more justified their function of upholding...
...Social Service Committee has had two aims in view this year. First of all charity work, the giving of money and food to needy persons and organizations, and secondly the equally important function of personal contact between students and boys in the Settlement House Work. This year there were 200 men actively engaged in some work of this sort. We have sacrificed numbers this year in the interest of a higher quality of work. At the beginning of the year a new method of enlisting men by direct contact between settlement house and student was tried, but most...
Drama is the revelation of the potentialities of every man. The theatre is a great mirror of life. All creative activities extend human consciousness, and enlarge human power. But there is this difference. A chemist or an engineer may remain ignorant in other departments of knowledge. The function of drama is to bring the infinite variety of the living world into convenient compass for observation. To increase knowledge of humanity is to enlarge humanity...
...Constitution or the White Mountains. It is the price always paid for strength and excellence, above all for the steady resistance to dogma, religious, political and economic; it is the sharp wind that blows the harder, the swifter and the better the ship. Harvard as a spiritual entity whose function is to teach and haply to educate the youth, asks nothing better than to be counted a worker in our American Commonwealth, but as such entity cannot and must not have its facts manufactured for it, its thoughts directed or controlled. For these reasons, it is not seldom criticised...
...Department of State over the admission of Count Michael Karolyi, and assertions that the Department was "abundantly justified" in preventing him from speaking after he got here have distressed American lovers of free speech. These good people do not realize that the Secretary of State is merely exercising a function consecrated to his use by a benevolent Congress. During the war the Secretary was given the power of controlling aliens absolutely whenever "the public safety" should require it. This power has now been made a permanent attribute of the Department of State...