Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...active or latent, in the field in which he is concentrating, or because his tutor is not interesting and does not inspire. Avoidance of this latter possibility is essential. On the personalities of the tutors depends the efficiency of the system, and care in their selection is the administrative function, of primary importance. As to the other possibility, a capable tutor can judge of a man's interest in his work, and can recommend a change of concentration either to him or to the college office. This action might be taken more than it now is with much benefit...
...real political function of our universities," says Mr. Glenn Frank in an article on the part of state universities in politics in the May Century Magazine, "is the training of a race of unofficial statesmen." While the knowledge of state government and its functions resides in the universities, the power to rule remains in the hands of practical politicians. Mr. Frank proposes "to drive knowledge and power abreast" by bringing learning into closer touch with the current of public life...
...this shifting evolution toward specialization the college is becoming less and less adapted to its environment. Prestige and responsibility is being transferred to the graduate schools, while the college is becoming a secondary institution. It performs the function of a "background", at best a mere beginning. To the average student the cost of this preparation is a heavy burden,--four valuable years to be spent in beginning...
...election could, with the support of the outgoing President, or with a two-thirds majority, enact a law which would prohibit the new President from forming a new Cabinet of his own. In short, the Senate, if Senator Pepper's contention is sound, could so usurp the executive function as to make a President powerless. All of which is absurd...
According to a despatch from West Frankfort, Ill., the motive power of The West Frankfort American's press ceased to function last week. Editor Byron Elkins cogitated. He stepped into the street, backed "a small automobile" into his shop, jacked up the wheels, attached a belt, ran off his editions "at the rate of 30 miles an hour." He alleged that he got "1,500 papers to a gallon of gasoline...