Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellectual moron. The most unlettered of common sailors can appreciate the beauty of "The Nigger of the Narcissus" far more than the most erudite of landlubbers, for he has lived the life that Conrad so masterfully described. And so--let the Conrad Memorial Library be duly honored; its function will, by the natural course of events, be fulfilled...
Granville Dulse, graduate of the University of California in 1925, and last year special investigator for the street traffic survey in Chicago, as holder of one fellowship, is undertaking a nation wide study of the organization and function of police courts especially in connection with their handling of traffic problems...
...speakers at the gathering in December, the Federation has been fortunate in procuring President MacCracken of Vassar, Professor Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin, and President Little of Michigan. These men will present various views upon the main topics of the Congress The Function of a University, The Influence of Extra-Curricula Activities upon College Life, The Place of Athletics in Education. Nor are these subjects which fail either in suggestiveness or practicality. If the undergraduate is to share in the development of his own institution of learning in a same and constructive fashion, these are topics vital...
There are few undergraduate institutions which profess a more necessary function than the Student Advisory Committee, and, as far at least as this year is concerned, few have fulfilled their functions with more intelligence or greater success. In that process of orientation which is so essential to the assimilation of a thousand new students, the advice which well-directed upperclassmen can give to Freshmen needs neither a sophisticated superiority nor the absence of a healthy indifference...
...Government by injunction must cease if government by law is to function unchallenged. The way equity courts have used injunctions in industrial disputes has created in the minds of wage earners a general distrust of our courts. Equity courts are without authority, constitutional or statutory, to interfere with or infringe upon government...