Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshmen are a little younger but otherwise little different from the upperclassmen. There are no restrictions on a freshman's right to mingle with his elders or ape their manners. Once a year, however, the joins his classmates in a function set apart for freshmen and their dates; the Jubilee weekend...
Eisenhower feels that he must act as a spokesman for the whole Republican Party, which, he says, he did not "invent." He feels it is not his function as presidential candidate to tell the people of Wisconsin whom they ought to send to the Senate. Says he: "The idea of forcing uniformity within a party is precisely the thing that most European countries have been doing to their own injury . . . This splinter party system of Europe ... is what the Democratic spokesman recommends for us Americans...
Vague Loyalty. The technical definition of a U.N. employee's loyalties-to his country and to the U.N.-is vague. New U.N. employees swear to exercise their function as "international civil servants" in all "loyalty, discretion and conscience." "They are not expected," say staff regulations, "to give up their national sentiments or their political and religious convictions...
...While we do not agree with McCarthy's methods," Schroeder said, "it is not our function to oppose any candidate of our party...
...social science (the study of groups, laws, customs, etc.) and of natural science, the "law for thing." But these must never be the core, for taken alone they can actually become a menace. "To the student who knows nothing but social science, man is known only by his function or participation in the group. If a man himself is most notable because he is a member of a social institution, no matter how exalted the institution, he is already a slave...