Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should both like to make it known that the Harvard Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Harvard Conservative League are not at enmity with each other. Both organizations can function without one interfering with the other. The Harvard F.O.R. will continue to welcome visitors at its meetings. David Cole '55, Pres. Conservative League John Butcher '57, Chairman F.O.R...
...says Cowles, anyone can chart the decline of profitable newspaper sensationalism. Newspapers, says he, have realized that complete and fair news coverage builds circulation. With few exceptions, those newspapers that "have had the heaviest circulation losses are not papers that regard full and fair news presentation as their primary function and reason for existence . . . Because of the rapidly rising educational level of the American public and its steadily widening range of interests, those newspapers that were built largely on the formula of sex and crime sensationalism plus entertainment features no longer adequately satisfy all the interests which the reader wants...
...University of Chicago's University College, where housewives and businessmen can start studying Aristotle's Poetics at 7 in the morning, is growing at a faster rate (7% in one year) than the undergraduate college. But if adult education has changed the function of the university, it has also changed the face of the community...
GSAS, then, is to a great extent personified by is scholarly curriculum. Nevertheless there are marked lines of cleavage among faculty and students on the purpose of graduate education. There is, however, an official orthodox view of the function as they see it applicable in their fields...
...This function, as defined by Francis M. Rogers, Dean of the USAS, is "to train students for the Ph.D., the professional degree of the academic profession." GSAS, to Dean Rogers and to many other faculty members, is as truly professional as any other graduate school in the University. But the Dean points out, his concept of the "academic profession"--"the preservation, dissemination, and advancement of knowledge"--is far broader than hat of many others...