Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House functions will be closed except the Lowell House operetta, which will be open to all members of the College. However, Lowell House students will not be allowed to attend a function of any other House...
...solemn vow to "liberate Formosa." It is Peking's declared No. 1 foreign-policy objective. It serves the additional purposes of justifying its large armies, of keeping tensions stirred up, of taking its people's minds off crop failures and floods. Chiang Kai-shek serves the historical function of being tyranny's external enemy, who can be blamed for exertions demanded and identified as the sponsor of anyone who dares challenge the regime. To renounce all this, to concede the U.N.'s right to talk of cease-fire or its right to meddle in "an internal...
...lonely boyhood in Basel, started to learn Latin at six, and grew into what he was later to classify as "an introvert type with the dominant function of thinking." His first ambition was to become an archaeologist or paleontologist. "He's still thrilled at news of an excavation," says a disciple. "But we carry history inside us, too, and he's dug it up there...
...done and swimming has retained its "major" status ever since. Though no discredit to swimming, this incident illustrates the unfortunate arbitrariness of the present athletic letter system. A varsity letter shod primarily be a personal token of recognition which the College gives to a player. Only as a secondary function should a letter distinguish a player from the rest of the student body. But the policy of the Athletic Association has made the secondary purpose that primary one. It has distinguished between major and minor sports, on the basis of outside popularity rather than that of participant contribution. This emphasis...
Chermjayeff, who had written the magazine in protest, denied having given permission for the use of his name on the composite letter. "I consider the concourse to be an excellent example of 19th century Victorian madness and exuberant vulgarity," he said, "but it still performs a useful function...