Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...universities continue their function of bringing in the facts--facts from history, from other cultures, from analytic investigation of life and the nature of the universe--they will have performed in the most effective way possible. Teaching courses primarily for a "purpose," rather than for content, clashes with the basic ideas of liberal education and is no way out of either basketball fixes or governmental corruption...
Even more serious is the gross misconception of the function of the Dean's office which is implied in the editorial. Phrases such as, "an official charged with regulating students' personal conduct," and "strictly disciplinary fellows like the present Assistant Deans," are used. The fact is that probably less than one per cent of the cases that come to the Dean's Office are disciplinary cases, and there may well be more disciplinary cases handled in the Houses now than in University Hall. Almost all of the work of the Dean's Office consists of trying to deal with...
Just from where crew coach Harvey Love will draw his material for the four-oar boats is uncertain. If the varsity doesn't function according to high hopes held for it, he could take his oarsmen from there. More than likely, he will get his fours from the J.V. or third boat which have consistently been packed with first-rate oarsmen the past several seasons...
Nightclub singer Lizabeth Scott is the same as ever. She serves the function of squealing to the cops, which in turn helps an over-eager young policeman to trap and shoot two of Ryan's gang, which in turn makes Ryan shoot the eager cop. This enables Mitchum to lock...
...second extra-regular function is the arrangement of individual lectures and discussions on particular phases of law. In recent years, Judge Samuel Leibowitz, famous Brooklyn trial lawyer, has appeared...