Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advantages of a great university, the Houses can provide also all the important advantages of a small institution if they are properly developed. But. . . the individual Houses (must be) small enough to be manageable units for social, athletic, and activities purposes. . . (they must) have a genuine function in the educational program of the College beyond that of dormitory and dining hall...
...ready to put out to any threatened place on the delta's edge. The lowest echelon in this setup is what the French call autodéfence, i.e., self-defense by a kind of village home guard, armed with ten to 100 rifles. The home guard's function is to repel light attack and inform the French of enemy movements...
...workers will be replaced by the intelligent machines. A national emergency could speed up the process greatly. Both management and government, said Gulick, will have to look sharp, lest a too-quick development of this sort leave a large part of the U.S. population without support or function...
Yale has an equivalent of Harvard Yen-Ching Institute, called Yale-in-China. Like Yen-Ching it is surrounded by a Communist run country but, unlike Yen-Ching, it is completely certain that it will continue to function...
Undergraduate opinion should perhaps be crystallized on permitting the inroads television has been making into student life. One housemaster seemed resigned. "Like any other gadget," he said, "TV is inevitable as the plague, and performing a useful function on occasions...