Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Should Harvard cease to function today its part in Community activities would not even be missed for it co-operates with no one. Ruth Davis Boston...
...curdling yell-one that welled and resounded across Notre Dame's practice football field last week-the varsity players broke from 'their huddle and dashed forward to face the "Hamburger Squad," the Notre Dame freshmen. At Notre Dame, the freshmen never play an outside game. Their sole function is to serve as "ground meat for the varsity," a ferociously hungry group which believes in eating''up just as much yardage in midweek scrimmages as in Saturday's big game. The seven linemen-roaring another guttural...
...courses in corresponding departments at Harvard. The basis for this policy again goes back to Wilson who felt a need for a counterbalance to the free-elective system, originated at Harvard by President Eliot and spread through other universities. As Wilson saw it, Harvard under Eliot had performed the function of liberation, but had left education in disorder. Wilson decided that it was Princeton's job to take the lead in recoordination. The policy of the University ever since has been to allow the student to choose departments as he pleases but then to restrict his choice within the department...
Even more to be deplored, says Rosenthali, "is the influence of TV on ... the press conference . . . Washington press conferences have been developed to the point where they often fulfill [a] function of the British parliamentary system: officials are confronted face to face with pointed and sometimes not too friendly questioning . . . With the beginning of the 1952 presidential campaign. TV insisted that ... it had a right to be in on all press conferences . . . But . . . televising the press conference just about destroyed [it]. The official being questioned realized that he was talking not to news specialists but to an audience of millions...
Drugs & Understanding. Bronx-born, California-trained Psychologist Hood, 40, saw the difference between the truly retarded and the salvageable brain-injured when he was hired to handle a class of Chinese "morons" in San Francisco. Most, he found, were not retarded at all, but their natural intelligence could not function normally because of their injuries. After he met Dr. Putnam (who has done as much as any man living to develop the use of drugs which now control epilepsy in two-thirds of its victims), Hood took over an abandoned mansion on West Adams Boulevard and started his special boarding...