Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group, do not face the inconveniences of long hours and difficult labor that characterize dining room jobs. Those in the Houses, for instance, may spend at least a portion of their time at the library desk in study. But the attendants at the University libraries serve an essential function and offer a service that must be adequately rewarded lest the jobs go begging. The Houses are having increasing difficulty filling the maintenance posts at the ungratifying pay of $.55 per hour. Both here and at Widener, this work requires full attention of the attendant. Both in the Houses...
Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, felt that the Fulbright proposal is one which "would come naturally from people who think the British parliamentary system is more democratic and efficient than ours." "Our system," he added, "can function and accomplish the purposes for which it was designed without having one party in control...
...addition to serving what appears to be a genuine need on the part of many veterans, this form of House activity might serve as a useful function for staff members whose connection with the House and its going-on has been purely nominal. In this twin role, a series of review sections in each field requiring the graduation exams would identify non-resident members of the House staff with the House, and lend the seven divisions of the College something more than a dormitory aspect. Although this type of project has no precedent in the short history of the House...
Another local feminine institution of higher learning has been heard from as a representative of the Sargent College dance committee invited 250 University students to a "function . . . well, it's only a dance" tomorrow night at the little Phy-Ed. school, just three blocks up Massachusetts Avenue from Square...
...industrious, highly skilled workers would appear obvious," he said, "[besides] there is today in Great Britain a 200,000 surplus of women of marriageable age. I am one of those people who believe that it is a great misfortune for women to be unable to fulfill their biological function because of a shortage of males...