Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Simonson '09, one of the country's leading authorities on theatre design and function, will discuss the problems of "A University Theatre" at 4 p.m. today in Fogg Art Museum...
...Although 85% of all ailments can be treated by a G.P., many hospitals regard the generalist as a sorting clerk whose chief function is to refer patients to staff specialists. Restrictions on qualified generalists are strictest in large Eastern cities and include a complete shut-out in most teaching hospitals, limitation in others to minor surgery, nonoperative obstetrics, routine medical care. In Baltimore hospitals G.P.s are forbidden even to stitch a small cut or open an abscess in the emergency room. One hospital in Pittsburgh requires that the chief of obstetrics grant a G.P. official permission to use outlet forceps...
...these things function as advertised. Yet the existence of the Wine Sippers adds little to the lives of beer drinkers; claw--feet do little to reconcile a bath-tub to one desiring a shower; the dining hall, however much better than the rest, still must cook on a budget, which contributes some of the evils of the Central Kitchen; the high-powered brains are of little general utility; the English collection's excellence is of little use to science concentrators, the washing machines are insignificant if one wants clothes ironed...
Which is to say more than that these attractions are valuable only to those who prefer them; it is to say that they function as fragments, typifying simultaneously the House's individual spirit and wide range of interests...
Turning from the issue's highly satisfactory fiction, we find that its most important preoccupations with the problem of the academician's function. Paul Goodman's article, "The Freedom to Be Academic," is an interesting if somewhat briefly presented reaction to the problem of anxiety in university faculties. Using two recent books on the academic freedom issue as a starting point, Goodman argues for the greater commitment of both teacher and student in the academic relationship. His insistence on the need of dedication to propositions is echoed by the editors of i.e. in their editorial, "The Place of Opposition...