Word: functional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university is not merely a training school but also a seat of higher learning under the continuous duty to contribute to the fund of knowledge at the command of mankind", he wrote. "This double function of scholarship and training is indivisible; there can be no separation of teaching and research...
This view disregards what could be another--and perhaps more--valuable function of freshman tutorial: namely to aid in helping the student to choose his final field of concentration. In spite of the broad outlook afforded by survey courses, and in spite of the availability of advanced courses to selected freshmen, the choice is often made haphazardly. The possibilities of a miss are too great, necessitating subsequent readjustments and consequent failure to capitalize fully on the benefits of the tutorial system. A solution lies in the use of freshman tutorial as a means of helping students to distinguish their aptitudes...
...Italy) gave rise to reports that he and President Roosevelt had arrived at an agreement for the resumption of diplomatic relations between the U. S. and the Holy See.* Observers pointed to a handsome new building, arising on Washington's "Embassy Row," for the Catholic Apostolic Delegation (whose function is purely ecclesiastical). Such reports have been current before-when Postmaster General Farley visited the Pope in 1936 and when Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, visited the U. S. two years ago (TIME...
...belief induced by great expenditure that good gasoline is sold only under particular trade names. . . ." Admitting that present anti-trust laws are inadequate to limit advertising. Trust Buster Arnold nevertheless argued that "the purpose of the anti-trust laws will be furthered if advertising is limited to its proper function of building up consumption. . . ." How this limitation was effected in the Ford and Chrysler cases was readily apparent in Mr. Arnold's announcement that "antitrust prosecution will not be compromised upon mere agreement to cease the practices complained...
...Placement Office is to perform this function efficiently, it is of the utmost desirability that students intending to seek its aid register early in their college careers--even in the sophomore year. The services which the Office can then render them are of a somewhat intangible nature, but nevertheless of great value. It can, first of all, start them thinking seriously and correctly about a choice of career. Because of the complexities of a vocational decision as well as its importance toward a productive and happy life, it requires, not merely a snap judgment in the senior year when...