Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond the specifically dangerous aspects of the individual bills, they all seek something inherently unsound--to establish state standards for the beliefs of university teachers. These institutions can function best, can only function, when they are free to set their own standards for the conduct of their faculty. State control will stifle the freedom necessary to worthwhile education...
...being shortchanged, then government can never give up its defense of those groups without seeming to betray them. This inevitably leads to an ever-increasing expansion of government powers. But if a government recognizes that the economy can and will provide prosperity for all, then it sees its economic function as one of repair and encouragement; it has no vested interest in getting bigger to fight for a cause. A two-way traffic in federal power develops. Government can give up functions, not merely take on new ones. A few days after the Economic Report came the recommendation...
...Nonobjective art has an incredibly big function," Winter passionately argues. "We can no longer perceive our world purely optically. Matter itself disintegrates into ever smaller particles. Atoms are smashed, time and space eliminated as barriers. The world has become transparent; we look through trees and know that a piece of iron is in hectic movement. I must, therefore, try with color and form to give expression to this world, my world, just as Renaissance painters did to theirs...
...believe the head of a university has special qualification to express his opinion on every subject," the President said. "But in the area of his own competence, he has not only the right but the responsibility to speak out. It is not the function of the head of a university to seek, at all costs, to avoid controversy...
...announced purpose of the tour is "to discuss the relation of architecture to function" in University buildings, Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, said yesterday. Such questions as whether each room should have a bathroom, and how many common rooms should a House have may be considered, Perkins explained...