Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order that they may more efficiently function in the enforcement of the national prohibition act, any state, county, or municipal officer may be appointed, at a nominal rate of compensation, as prohibition officer of the Treasury Department to enforce the provisions of the national prohibition act and acts supplemental thereto in states and territories, except in those states having constitutional or statutory provision against state officers holding office under the Federal Government...
...added function of next year's advisory Board will be to give assistance to foreign students in the University...
...This committee, whose sole function is to strengthen the liaison between Harvard and her alumni, therefore urges every man who has been to Harvard to send at once something--whatever he can well afford, whether it be one dollar or five thousand dollars--to the Harvard Fund, and to see in the future that this gift is repeated annually. His gift will be gratefully received, and he will have ample satisfaction in the feeling that he is an active factor in the service which the University is so efficiently rendering to mankind...
...American university, that is, if she is to attempt to reach with he influence not alone the youth of New England but the youth of the nation, as represented by the new enrolment figures, she must gird herself to meet the requirements of that youth. Not the insular function of a provincial university those duty is to the youth of that area, but the wider function of a center of learning open to all those in the land who are best fitted to work under her guidance--that is the difficult role which is now Harvard...
...difficulty, to face which is not peculiarly her own in that she is glutted with students. And in that aspect above all lies interest for the Harvard undergraduate. For those who would oppose change of any kind either in curriculum, in choice of entrants, in form or function of the University too little realize how very necessary it is that the huge numbers who now want and can get an education must be assimilated into the life of the University Any methods which best assists in such assimilation must not have the abrupt disregard of those who forget how many...