Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This most peculiarly American and modern function of a college president is that of a sort of mediator between the college and the world at large, or more particularly, between the college and the alumni. He has to bridge the gap between certain of the alumni who want a bigger and better football team and certain of the faculty who would like to abolish the football team altogether. Whatever his personal convictions may be, he has to establish the golden mean between, not only two, but often half a dozen discordant-factions. On first thought it would seem that...
...alliance of the I. C. A. A. A. A. with the A. A. U. on the Olympic Committee only accentuates the impotency of the recent break of the other associations. The organizations who have always done the work on the Olympic committees will continue to function whereas the ones that did the "looking-on" will now be carrying on their accustomed occupation from the outside rather than from within...
...quick to notice that as soon as the pack animals realized that we were moving beyond the timber line, they ceased to function, some even lying down. Remember that time was short and that twelve photographers as well as an advance agent of the Alpine Club were waiting there at the bottom of this mountain for news of our success...
...with other scoopings of fat) 31 pounds, and left a yellow gap across Mr. Phillips's belly, which the surgeons promptly closed by lifting flesh up off the thighs and nether parts to the steadier waist line. In three weeks he can be back at his gas station, can function with less discomfort...
...fullest discussion of public men and measures must hot only be permitted but encouraged. The government is given a mandate to carry out the will of the people of the United States and this is the only conceivable method by which it can be Coordinated whether it is fulfilling function. President Coolidge needs to brash up on his high school civies...