Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 22 1/2 years as Purchasing Agent for the University, William G. Morse '99 retired June 30. His duties will be assumed temporarily by Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, who will carry out the purchasing function in addition to his present responsibilities until a successor to Morse is appointed. The Purchasing Office staff is in the charge of the assistant to the Purchasing Agent, William P. Bunyon...
...responsible for violation of contract, like management. For years I have heard . . . that unions should be forced to keep contractual agreements the same as managements have to do. ... There never has been anything to force any company to keep an agreement. . . . NLRB states definitely that it is not their function to police contracts. They won't even take cases of contract violations...
When the Dial succumbed in 1929, its function had already been taken up by the Hound and Horn, founded by Lincoln Kirstein. Narrower in taste than the Dial, it printed avant-garde work of high standards. Its Henry James issue, near the end of its career in 1934, led the way to what had become ten years later almost a popular revival of the great novelist...
...faculty shortage, and a greatly expanded enrollment, the College has been inexorably forced to shade the quality of its offerings. Tutorial, in many departments, is a memory; classes are too big and growing bigger; section men are scarce and overloaded; crowding in the Houses has cramped their ability to function as leisurely intellectual incubators. However nourishing the menu may remain, its flavor has grown noticeably flat...
...Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings with Crosby and Dorsey if you doubt it. The older numbers were almost always played in a hell-for-leather tempo with a lot of those pogo stick ragtime mannerisms. The trumpet was considerably more limited in function, the rhythm less obviously two-beat, and the trombone quite tuba-like. The amount of electrical excitement generated by the old timers was considerable, however, a quality with which their successors do not seem much concerned...