Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot Drama Group has provoked much discussion this year, through its interpretation of a "House group." Up until last spring, a House group generally consisted of House members with the necessary Radcliffe contributions. The group's main function was to provide an intra-House activity for those in the House so inclines, and to attract freshmen who might be interested in such an organization...
Skinner answers the standard objections to mechanized education. First, far from treating the child "as a mere animal," the machines would be resigned to relieve the teacher of routine, but necessary, drill. The teacher would not be replaced, but "may begin to function, not in lieu of a cheap machine, but through intellectual, cultural, and emotional contacts of that distinctive sort which testifiy to his status as a human being...
...class function in the fall such as a picnic, a Jubilee or a get-acquainted party also would serve to unite the class, the committee said. The present entry system allows little chance for unified social activities such as the Houses have, the report added...
...Indian servants place a chair of honor for her, she insists on sitting on the ground. She will love the Indians, if it kills her-and them. Soon, of course, she is an expert on saris and embarrasses everyone by insisting on wearing one at an East-West social function. Most comical of all, the Indians' rich, aristocratic, complexion-conscious Brahmans and Parsees of Bombay resent her modish suntan...
...eruptions on the surface of our political life should not mislead us about the views of the rank and file of both parties and of the general electorate on what should be done and how we should go about it. Although the feuding and the fighting have both their function and their useful consequences, they obscure, as often as they illuminate, the real character of the political alignment in the country at large. For insight into this political development, we must look to what the parties actually do -- the means and measures they support when vested with the responsibility...