Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cedar Hill conference, composed of student leaders and faculty members, is not a policy-making group, however. Its function is to make recommendations to the individual College organizations...
...Civil Service Commission's present function should be split. "No single agency," says Worthy, "can properly represent both management and workers." He wants to leave to the commission the job of protecting merit-system workers. To a new office, stemming from the White House. Worthy would give the functions of a top management personnel director, charged with forming and coordinating management personnel policies...
...cram schools are no more. They and their often-successful attempts to beat the academic system have been replaced by the Bureau of Study Counsel, which may not advertise as well but which, from a long view, is unquestionably more valuable to any student. It is the Bureau's function to help men make the sometimes-difficult adjustment to life at Harvard and, at the same time, to enable the University's faculty to do a better job of teaching...
Perry feels that the Bureau of Study Counsel is fulfilling its intended function, "to provide a consultive service for students to assist them in breaking out of repetitive, circular thinking about their work and to obtain a sense of independence and mastery...
Pusey cited essayist Richard Hofstadter's concern with the implicit assumption that "education ought to pay its own way" as an instrument rather than a goal. "As the function of education becomes increasingly circumscribed, the danger in this assumption grows," Pusey said...