Word: functional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief function of the tutoring schools is to prepare students for Harvard's tough written examinations (which largely determine a student's grade in most courses). Housed around Harvard Square, the tutoring schools coach students in groups or individually, cram a full course into a few tense hours, sell review notes, other crutches, charge up to $4 an hour. Where once William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen had a monopoly of this enterprise, today nine full-fledged tutoring schools flourish in Harvard Square. The Crimson charged that some tutoring schools supplied students with ready-written term papers and theses...
...afternoon last week, Seattle's new Field Artillery Armory had its first public function. For the Citizens' Military Observance Patriotic Mass Meeting, 3,000 patriotic citizens appeared. Field guns lined the big hall. On the platform sat the great & good of Seattle's churches. Unconsidered among these bigwigs sat an uninvited guest -an obscure, churchless Congregational minister, Rev. Louis E. Scholl, 62. As he listened to the invocation by a Roman Catholic priest and a speech on peace and democracy by Major General John F. O'Ryan (retired), Mr. Scholl was outwardly calm. Inwardly, however...
...spite of the rain-soaked playing surface and an intermittent drizzle, the Stableymen's steamroller began to function smoothly in the second quarter. Anderson, as well as Blotner, accounted for two points, while Willard, Doughty, Ferris, and Halstead each scored once...
...circumstances that discredited Russell Sage, angered Arthur Flatto and many another Western Union stockholder, is similar to that with which railroads are familiar: revenues down and costs up, largely for reasons beyond the management's control (see below). But Arthur Flatto believed that the management had "failed to function properly in producing profits," three months ago started rounding up proxies to oppose the management slate. No mere corporate troublemaker, he spent $4,450 out of his own pocket convincing other dissatisfied shareholders that they were entitled to minority representation "just like the Supreme Court." This proposition Messrs. Carlton...