Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected," Eliot wrote, "that if a profitable and pleasant relation were established during the freshman year between the adviser and the advised, the relation would be maintained during the later College year; but the primary function of the adviser was no give counsel and encouragement to the newcomer, bewildered perhaps by the sudden freedom of College life, the multiplicity of fresh interests, and the complexity of his first problem--the wise selection of studies...
Advisers, of course, are limited by time, but most find the time and interest to go well beyond this narrow study-card approach. Harold C. Martin, director of General Education Ahf, for instance, sees an an important function for advisers the help they can give to students to get through the "machinery and red-tape of Harvard." "All the advising system is, in the end," says Martin, "is a substitute for the kind of explanation one would give to a stranger or a guest if he came to one's house...
William Gropper never lost his social conscience or his conviction that "the artist's function is to be aware of life and conditions of the times." He still satirizes the blustering Senators and the martini-drinking set that crowds the chic exhibit halls. On the other hand, he retains compassion for the little east side tailor who emigrated to this country lie his own grandfather. Yet, both in moods of satire and compassion his color has become more strident. "I am having a ball with color," he says, and this above all seems to be his concession to the Formalistic...
...function of the supermarket is to provide the housewife with all the necessities-for her table, her home, her family." Thus Lansing P. Shield, president of Grand Union Co., last week set forth the big goal of Grand Union. With 46 giant new stores to be opened this year, Shield will invade the provinces of the hardware and the drug stores, push forward into the catchall domain of the dime store, turn the modern supermarket into a junior self-service department store...
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. It is a business almost indistinguishable from that of a seller of snake-oil for rheumatism. As for a lawyer, he is simply, under our cash-register civilization, one who teaches scoundrels how to commit their swindles without too much risk. As for a physician, he is one who spends his whole life trying to prolong the lives of persons whose deaths, in nine cases out of ten, would be a public...