Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue and is in no manner connected with any prejudices--unless it be those of radicalism. As a resume of what is taking place in America's institutions of higher learning it is a through reporter, very nicely adjusting the relations of athletics and other distractions to the primarily function of a college or university, that is to say the function of education...
...first group of courses includes those in English composition, of which there are many, adapted to students of all degrees of maturity and proficiency. Inasmuch as writing is an art, which means doing rather than knowing, and as the function of a university is primarily to teach knowledge, no student is permitted to offer for the degree an unlimited number of these courses. But nearly all of the other courses require such individual reaction to what has been learned, and such self-expression, as is involved by writing about...
This year for the first time, favors will be given, to the guests of the Class of 1927 at this annual function, which in spite of its name is in reality the Senior Prom. As in past years the affair will be a program dance...
...Charles Dietz of the University of Illinois, studying "English government finance from 1558 to 1640"; or Dr. Marion Elizabeth Blake, Converse College, scrutinizing "the Republican and Augustan pavements of Italy"; or Dr. Philip Franklin of Massachusetts Institute of Technology going to Germany and Switzerland to ponder "integral equations, orthogonal functions and their relation to almost periodic function...
Since the Bursar's department of the University is in good condition and things have been running smoothly, no radical changes in its curriculum are anticipated. It is expected that the office will continue to function very nearly as it has under the supervision of Mr. Endicott...