Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knowledge of strategy and physical bravery are already possessed by these men, but it is the function of their government to provide them with ships, their instruments of war. In the Senate, last week, this function began to be discussed, relative to the Cruiser Bill, relict of the last Congress. Did the U. S. need more light cruisers? In view of the passage of the Kellogg Peace Treaty, should the U. S. feel that appropriating money for more naval armament would be a belligerent act? The issues were complex and contested. The question seemed likely to absorb the Senate...
...doubtless aware that his class had by no means a monopoly of those present. In fact it was openly boasted by a member of a Class of 1928 that, not to mention three "Freshman Jubilees, he then counted four Junior Dances on his record. So why limit his glorious function to members of the Sophomore and Junior classes. And above all let's keep the good old traditional title of "Junior Prom"; it means a lot to the little girl up from Toonerville. H. Bowen Wands...
Heralded as the greatest social function of the year, the Junior Prom looses its night of fun and festivity with dinner this evening. Other dances may surpass the Prom in gorgeousness occasionally-not often-but there is, was, and ever will be One Prom, and only one. It is apart from every other form of social life...
...live together will, therefore, cut across the grooves in which undergraduate social life naturally flows. This poses the question whether as a result there can be any real cohesion within the new groupings, without which, it is plain, they will fail utterly to function as intended. For the whole idea behind the experiment is an enhancement of education through social contacts to rescue the individual from submergence in the mass, to put him where he may enjoy daily social intercourse with members of the faculty and of other classes, and so sharpen his wits and his intellectual curiosity. Obviously...
Then there is the question of hours. Scientific experiment will also solve this problem: let one run from 7 to 11.30 as every nice little party should, and let the other function from 1 to 6. Time allowed for a good supper in Boston and everybody would be gloriously happen! J. C. de Wilde...