Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haskell is to be commended for his attack on the Rank List. The "liberal attitude towards the function of a college" is not only well-worth preserving, even if Harvard stands almost alone among universities in this respect, but also merits being advanced. And, while our method of concentration and distribution does certainly knock off a shackle or two of Paternalism from the hands of the undergraduate, he is at the same time having his feet bound by the trammels of a Dean's List, a Rank List, or a Senior advisor...
...Harvard College in the past, as well as the ghosts and the living souls of the many thousands who have received degrees in the regular course of the business of the college and the university. In view of the fact that the exercise of Harvard's degree-granting function antedates the State of Massachusetts by one hundred and thirty-two years, and was practically coeval with the Massachusetts Bay colony itself, the Attorney General's opinion can hardly be classed with the epoch-making instruments of American history. As a matter of sober historical fact, the power of Harvard...
...players. Why should they be thrust aside with one ticket, and a poor one at that, simply because the outside demand has become greater? This increasing demand for tickets, presumably from graduates, is doubtless a result of the growing importance of the H-Y game as a social function. Should the satisfying of this social craving be allowed to interfere with the satisfying of the demand of the student body, which with its friends, derives greater enjoyment, and of which the appreciation and enthusiasm is of higher degree than that of any other group...
Cooperating with the President in his work is the general supervisory organization known as the Board of Overseers. This board consists of the President and Treasurer of the University together with thirty other persons elected by general vote of all the graduates. Its main function consists in controlling the general policy of the University and supervising the different departments by means of delegated committees. All appointments of officers and instructors must be ratified by the Board of Overseers before they become official...
...parts of the University there are several departments which exert a very wide influence. The University Extension each year conducts hundreds of lectures in districts about Boston and does a great deal towards bringing education to the door of even the poorest man. The Summer School performs the same function when for six weeks in the vacation, school teachers and others who are unable to pursue their studies during the winter months have an opportunity to take courses in specialized fields relating to the work