Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...casual listener the major function of music is to please. Professor Spalding emphasizes the oft-neglected but supremely valuable quality of music; namely, its everyday usefulness. This article should be a "lamp unto the feet" of many. May it be widely read...
...more than ever before, fulfilling the purpose of its foundation. In a university of such magnitude as Harvard the existence of some central institution is imperative in order to gather up the various threads of undergraduate life and to bring all together in social, democratic understanding. This function is exactly what the Union is now doing, and for this reason every student in the University should contribute his mite to its success by joining its membership list and participating in its democratic life...
...letter sent to President Lowell explaining the intentions of the club, the following is found: "It is our belief that the service we have in mind to render is properly the function of a university club and is one, moreover, which will be sincerely appreciated by those who may take up their residence in our city as strangers...
...became a cultured man. He was a physician and philosopher with a charming personality, thoroughly balanced poetic temperament, and a keen imagination. The suffering of his race during the crusades gave form and thought to his poetical power, and he was so impressed with the fact that the function of the Jew is primarily religions, that he became famous as a fervent interpreter of the prophets. He was an intense Zionist and was killed by an Arab in 1140 while trying to reach Jerusalem, the city which served as the object of his devotional poetry...
...Harvard Medical School has recently received a gift of $10,000 from Mrs. William M. Underhill to form a fund, the income of which will be used for original investigation into diseases and disturbances of function of the nervous system...