Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long been held that mass killing is the work of states, not of peoples. War, some say, is caused by professional militarism, the existence of large arsenals and the itch of governments to exercise their most spectacular function. Similarly, the killing of 6,000,000 Jews in Europe was the work of a state, mad with its organized power. Are you suggesting that the Indian killing sprang out of the people themselves, out of the evil which you call Kali...
Although the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures garners the imposing total of 120 concentrators, the number of undergraduates outside the Department who enter the basic literature offerings--French 6, Spanish 4, Portuguese 2, or Italian 4--has consistently remained negligible. The chief function of the Department must rest of course with satisfying the demands of the specialists. But especially at an hour pervaded by the spirit of the General Education proposals a man should not find this field closed to him simply because he lacks the language requirement...
...individual college level, how can Harvard best integrate its function as a college with its function as a university? Can the admissions policy be widened to bring in more students from lower economic groups? What should be the criteria for allotting scholarships? To what uses can the House system and Tutorial best be put? Questions of this more specific nature cannot be intelligently answered until the basic aims of college education have been defined...
Picture of every member of the Class of 1951, as well as his school and home address will be included in the Register. "We hope to get it out by Christmas," Maynard said last night, "in order that its function of integrating the Freshman Class may begin as early as possible...
Last Fall's ostentatious Constitutional Revision only culminated evolution in progress since the first Council of 1908. Two basic obstacles had long blocked a quick maturity: unrepresentative political composition of the Council and the time-honored concept of the level on which propriety permitted a collegiate aristocracy to function...