Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...request of Dean Bender that the Council is undertaking the project of sampling College opinion on the subject. In its investigation it will be guided by three basic questions: (1) Does the grade system perform a necessary educational function? (2) What effect on the student's work in a course does the preparation for hour exams and mid-term papers have and (3) what, if any, is the simplest, most inexpensive grading system...
Patiently, Emmelin & Feldberg squeezed hundreds of nettle needles to find out what was in them. They found two separate poisons, each with a special function. Acetylcholine causes the sudden burning (as if the nettle said: "Let me alone-and quick"). The other, histamine, starts the persistent itching ("Just as a reminder not to touch me again...
...Such a diversion of public-school funds involves the interlocking of the taxing function of the state with the institutional functioning of the church which owns and operates . . . schools. . . . The majority decision of the Supreme Court in the New Jersey case undertook to justify such aid to parochial schools by detaching bus transportation from the institutional functioning of the church, and even of the school. Having thus detached it, the court then classified bus transportation as a 'public welfare' measure...
...fallacy of this procedure should be apparent. Other functions of the school can be detached from the school in like manner one after the other. . . . The state cannot assume responsibility for any function of a parochial school without interlocking its function with the institutional functioning of the school and of the church which, for its own religious purposes, maintains...
...Released time" for religious instruction in public-school buildings is also unconstitutional. (". . . . The school instructors vacate their function and the several churches take it over...