Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final examinations are now the chief obstacle in the committee's way, Chairman John A. Quisenberry '46 declared last night, for the group will cease to function during the exam period unless additional volunteers are found to aid it in its work...
Another important springtime function of the office is the mailing and counting of Alumni ballots for Overseers, directors of the Alumni Association, and the Harvard Fund Council. More than 11,000 votes were cast last year in the overseers elections, all of which were handled by a special counting system in this office...
Although the original Committee on General Education pulled few punches in examining the role of secondary schools, little has occurred recently to dispel the widely-held impression that the Committee was beating invisible wings when it spoke out on the function of the high and prep school. Within the academic walls undergraduates have seen the visible fruits of "General Education in a Free Society," but little, unfortunately, seems to have drifted out into the public and private schools to ground the future college student with the kind of training which should lead up to the newly inaugurated program...
...labor union has no excuse for existence except to watch out for the safety and welfare of its members. Its primary function is not to get annual wage increases...
...question now arises whether or not we can function as a democracy if the legislation to outlaw the Communist Party is passed. If men can be deprived of the "right to work" because of political beliefs, if men are in "fear" that they may be fired from their jobs because of the illegality of holding certain political beliefs, if under the dubious standard of democracy, men are persecuted for radical opinions, then where is the freedom outlined in the Bill of Rights, the Atlantic Charter, the basic tenets on which our country was founded...