Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly Albert North Whitehead, professor of philosophy at Harvard, comes to the conclusion that the welding together of imagination and knowledge is the true function of a university. The imaginative consideration of acquired knowledge is the duty of teacher and student alike; the contact of the mind of the scholar engaged in research with the eager intellect of the young at its most imaginative stage is the prescription for the fulfillment of this task...
...enliven the cautious conversations at Rome, last week, came a fire eating, swashbuckling editorial from L'Impero, an arch-Fascist news organ which performs the sometimes useful function of a watch-puppy which can bark but not bite. Barked L'Impero...
Those men will function in England. In the U. S. will be a committee with similar directorial powers. Its membership is as imposing as is that of the British board...
Just what legitimate function is left the student adviser is not easy to say. There are, undoubtedly, however, many problems on which the Freshman would rather consult a student than a faculty adviser. For this reason alone it would be unwise in abolish entirely the present advisory system. But the system does need considerable simplification. If all the machinery of visits, reports, letters, and blanks which has proved barren of practical results were abolished, and the entire efforts of the committee devoted to providing readily available advice for Freshmen who really want it the efficacy of the system would...
...Duggan, has turned over the management of all international debating in which the United States has participant teams to the Federation. The Institute has, in previous years, made all arrangements in this country for the debating tours of various foreign teams, especially the English groups, and has developed this function up to the point where it is entirely self-supporting. This year it has chosen to turn the project over to the students. Negotiations have been completed so that in the future the N. S. F. A. will be in entire charge of this field...