Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asking the judge to free the first group of students, Warren had said that Columbia was "a big family." "Like a family, we must survive our crises...and continue to live and function together as a unit," Warren said, adding, however, that Columbia could take necessary disciplinary steps itself...
White last week said the Overseers' function was one of "advice and consent." Although the Corporation--formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College--makes most of the day-to-day decisions about the University at its weekly meetings, the Overseers must approve administrative or teaching appointments of more than one year's duration, degrees, and changes in the statutes and other major rules of the University. It usually gives what Richardson last week called its "benign approval...
...ineligible people in question would have stayed in their sections to direct discussion and suggest readings. They would have, according to Cottle, explicitly fulfilled the teaching function...
...toughest problems. Surgeons have tried transplantation, but the process is incredibly difficult, and the survival record so far is only 13 months (TIME, Sept. 6). With varying degrees of success, doctors have 1) used massive blood transfusions, 2) passed the patient's blood through an excised but still functioning pig's liver, and 3) even connected a patient's bloodstream with another human's, thus letting the volunteer's liver function for both bodies. But the results have been spotty, at best. Now a team of South African surgeons, including Heart Transplanter Christiaan Barnard, have...
Cottle said that the Harvard undergraduates and one non-Harvard graduate student in question will "explicitly fulfill the teaching function." They will remain in the section to direct discussion and suggest readings as their expertise permits. A graduate student will, as in all sections, be officially in charge...