Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What socially valuable function is performed by the hobo? (See EDUCATION...
...precisely what the A. A. U., the Western Conference, and similar federations have presumed to do. That actual professionalism flourishes unrebuked even under the most virtuous of these organizations, however, is by no means a secret. And amateur athletics would make a noteworthy step back towards their true function, should they revolt against the tyrranical and often hypocritical paternalism which now surrounds them...
Professor Piper though that much of such criticism proceeded from an apparently prevalent misconception of the function of the university as differentiated from that of the vocational school...
...require examinations of graduates of schools which are accustomed to prepare men for college entrance. The preference accorded western schools is undoubtedly unexceptionable. Far more significant than these changes is the final ruling, the decision to lay greater emphasis upon qualities of character personality, and promise. If the function of a college be the development of the complete man, it follows that an admission system based purely upon success in written examination is built on too narrow a foundation. The new policy is therefore a logical deduction from the Platonic ideal of human development...
...quality is her heterogeneity. The balance of elements must be maintained, but an untoward restriction of any given group would be as disastrous, more disastrous even, than no restriction at all. There is no atmosphere more enervating than that of the college whose members approximate a single type. The function of the University is to produce gentlemen, in the best sense of the term, but the University needs a leaven of students who are not gentlemen...