Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the season's start, the Jayvees have been plagued by defects in their attack. Either it was fumbles, or pass interceptions, or poor timing. McCabe's task of ironing out difficulties has been made no easier by the guinea pig function of the Jayvees. Most of J.V. practice time is spent impersonating the varsity opponent of the following week...
...parietal rules, and other annoyances. The big reasons are major lacks in the House programs. Some Houses simply do not offer a wide enough selection of extra-curricular goings-on to stimulate many members. And, most important, the Houses have never succeeded in what was to be a major function, that of serving as centers of education for large numbers of students. Forums and "concentration dinners" do exist, but the House have failed to become places where a man can improvise on his lecture hall learning, play with ideas, grow mentally...
...declared that they "would continue to function along Progressive lines as long as it was necessary." Clarification of just what this general statement meant in terms of specific activity was not available from any higher authority in the organization last night...
...ramble ahead with the aid of some conditions that haven't been seen around the Yard since before the war. Last year's efforts were all but blocked by over-crowding, and the fact that the Yard was a hodge-podge of freshmen and upperclassmen. The Union couldn't function properly: it was mainly a place where you waited in line to cat, or signed up a month in advance for a ping-pong table...
...Hoagland, that under certain conditions (when a person is awake with his eyes closed) waves of electricity, about ten a second, pass rhythmically over the top of his brain. These "alpha waves" have been used to diagnose various brain conditions, but for a long time no one understood their function. Now, said Dr. Hoagland, many neurologists believe that they are "scanning devices" like the electron beam that scans the image in a television transmission tube...