Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...views of the academic machine therefore suggest two congruent functions. The apparent purpose of the machine is to grind out up to date versions of the truth. But at the same time our machine is turning out the truth, it is also acting as a social escalator, helping the unsocialized ambitions. Needless to say, neither function can survive alone. The machine which focusses exclusively on making leaders will have an intellectually moribund faculty which cannot set the right example for the students. Only when the academic mind is operating at full efficiency can it make its viewers love the smell...
...function of the regulars may be to serve as "kingmakers" for imaginative candidates, he added, but the "old boys" are not the ones who will propose new solutions to pressing problems...
...claimed that more emphasis should be placed on science in this type of program, and, moreover, that the function of such a plan ought to be performed by the high schools, two assertions which occasion subsequent discussion...
...others give their pupils only an antiquated start in French or Spanish and see them come to grief in the College Board Exams. Until the secondary schools improve their language teaching to a far higher extent or until colleges stiffen their admissions policy, it will be the latter's function to teach a good percentage of their students a foreign language...
...recurring difficulty all these publications have faced is to discover a function to perform. As Radcliffe's activities become more and more merged with Harvard's and as Radcliffe editors become more numerous on Harvard publications, the scope and readership of a purely Radcliffe literary venture narrows. Yet the persistence of the Annex over the years tends to lessen any idea that her press will ever stop completely...