Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving onto the second floor, we find a number of "function rooms" and a library. The rooms are used mainly for private parties, class reunions, club meetings, last-night-before-the-ceremony bachelor parties, and final club dinners. There are a number of small, good-fellow clubs which hold regular meetings there, such as the "Goose and Jim," "The Ticker Tape Trust," the "Sangerfest," and the "Harvard Travellers." The function rooms are also a good place to have parties if you are not a member of a final club, one member confided...
Originated some 15 years ago, brain-storming was extended by BBDO to its clients in 1953, has since spread throughout industry. The advertising agency now has a Vice President in Charge of Brainstorming, whose major function is to hold about three brainstorm sessions a week, see to it that his charges sound off loud and clear. The panel of thinkers is made up of admen and (at nonconfidential sessions) outside guests and friends (including housewives). They sit around in a comfortable, yellow-painted (yellow is considered conducive to thought) brainstorm room furnished in homey knotty pine, have plenty of pads...
Robert M. Hutchins, controversial president of the Fund for the Republic, took perhaps the most radical stand of the evening when he called for a reevaluation of our educational system in terms of the question, Does the system under consideration successfully perform the function of criticism, "which is the sole justification of education...
...just beginning to learn of its potentialities and its limitations. Its ultimate Utopia is to serve as a kind of finish to the Harvard educative process, in that every graduating student will come to its doors in search of advice and information. There can be no doubt that its function is an important and a much-needed one, but until it undergoes some kind of expansion it can never really achieve its capabilities. Two administrator-counsellors, four secretaries, and a little building on Dunster Street will not support Student Placement's Utopia.Company Representatives interview prospective employees at 52 Dunster Street...
...much power. At present the Dean has begun a survey of school legislation in other states as the basis for making proposals to the General Court urging the strengthening of state control over the public school system. In any case, the present controversy will have served some useful function if it impresses upon Massachusetts the need for reform in the virtual autonomy of local school committees...