Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshmen will hold the first class function of their University lives Saturday night. The newly-elected Union Committee has scheduled an informal dance after the Dartmouth game...
Following Reynolds will be Keyes D. Metcalf, director of Widener Library, who will bear the Charter, the Seal, and the Record Books. The "Library Keeper" performed this same function...
While Quincy and his predecessors kept the University from succumbing to the utilitarian principle--the most practical education at the cheapest price--that had choked many other American institutions, the curriculum remained almost medieval. The function of the Faculty was to hear recitations, not to lecture. Students were forced to follow rigidly restricted curricula, and were made to pick up what they could from the material, virtually without help...
...Attorney General, Earl Warren seemed to be far & away the best man available. In addition to his administrative duties on the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice presides over the Judicial Conference of the U.S. (comprised of chief judges of the U.S. circuit courts), and thus has an administrative function over all of the nation's federal courts. Warren's knowledge of the problems of government and his administrative ability would serve him well in that phase of his work. In addition, his knack for pulling opposing forces together would help to prevent discord on the often-divided court...
...community, Seventy-two children from every sort of family background attend its twice-daily sessions, 45 in the morning group and 20 during the afternoon. Second is the valuable teaching practice it provides for graduate students in the Education School's division of early childhood education. Its third function is as a research ground for the Laboratory of Human Development and the Social Relations Department...