Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Initial holdings of Allegheny Corp. include shares in Chesapeake Corp., Nickel Plate, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Chesapeake & Ohio and Erie, all of which have been Van Sweringen stocks. The corporation is also empowered to make further investments, principally in railroad stocks. It can therefore function as a railroad investment trust as well as a Van Sweringen holding company. It has, however, no power to operate railroad properties or to engage in banking...
...Lampoon rarely demands reflection on the part of its readers. Its accustomed function is to amuse, to satirize, even to irritate, but seldom to provoke serious thought. Beneath the parody surface of the current "Protest of the Masses" number, however, there is much that can neither be ignored nor dismissed with an indulgent shrug...
...passing of Memorial Hall as the scene of the Junior Dance will cause little lamentation among undergraduates. Since the affair was first held there several years ago its quality in every way has been going from bad to worse. So now if the traditional function itself is to be kept alive for another year, the Union or a Boston hotel are the only alternative locales...
There is no reason to suppose that a Junior Dance at the Union would be any more popular than in Memorial Hall. The room might be slightly more cheerful, but if the dance were really well-attended the place would be much overcrowded. With a small number the function would be no more distinctive than a mediocre Union Dance. Certainly the Class of 1930 has no desire for anything of this sort...
...famous when they turn their methods of scholarly analysis to the practical problems of state. It was President Eliot who earned the title of "First Citizen of the Land" by his active interest in public affairs. Now we have not one, but many, who might qualify from their double function as university heads and valuable public servants...