Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper. The General Education report made one of its less renowned but important points on this account, urging short essays on assigned topics as a means toward fulfilling the important points on this account, urging short essays on assigned topics as a means toward fulfilling the important educational function of teaching people how to write...
...conference group. This idea is not new to the College, for it is used in History I and many other courses. But to make the conference group the central factor that it is, for example, in the Princeton "preceptorials," it would have to be given a definite status and function and standard...
...difficulty of tutorial has always been lack of a specific function in each student's case. What would be emphasized in the utopian program as tutorial's own goal is coordination of all the student's scattered courses and reading into a pattern leading somewhere in his own academic field. To help the undergraduate think about where he is heading intellectually, to fit the courses he takes in his field of concentration into a larger idea of the field--these objects only tutorial can achieve...
...Unitarian church discharges a 'vestibule' function in relation to the larger Christian church, inviting into itself as a foyer the unchurched but searching souls of our age who are as yet unprepared to penetrate into the Protestant sanctuary...
...Cryptogamic. College presidents were not amused when Veblen described them (in The Higher Learning in America) as "Captains of Erudition" whose function was to accustom the sons of rough "Captains of Industry" to "genteel solemnities" and urbane forms of "dissipation." Earnest economists who had written cumbersome tomes of unintelligible prose positively hated Veblen when he leaned forward, assumed a poker face and gravely asked them: "If we are getting restless under the taxonomy of a monocotyledonous wage doctrine and a cryptogamic theory of interest, with involute, loculicidal, tomentous and moniliform variants, what is the cytoplasm, centrosome, or karyokinetic process...