Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's group must turn elsewhere for its reason for existence. One important function is the production of undergraduate plays; but lacking suitable ones, it still serves a purpose by staging other unusual or interesting works which might otherwise go unproduced. A second function is actual experience, otherwise unavailable at Harvard, in acting, producing, and stage setting. A final and not most unimportant purpose, according to Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is recreation--dramatics for the love...
Machine rule has not only lost its adjustment function, but also has suffered from a changed temperament of the times, "Marx continues. This "changed temperament" is the "rapid evaporation of non-interventionist illusions of government" and the "Conservationist tendencies supplanting the carefree indifference toward social squandering...
Meanwhile the blazing Arab revolt showed an unprecedented contempt for British might. Rebels gained the upper hand throughout most of the tiny country. British courts of law ceased to function in all but the larger cities. Effective British government was confined to the boundaries of new Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. Daily trains to Egypt operated only thrice weekly, and then under armed guard. Arson, murder, wanton destruction made the Holy Land a land of terror, reducing Britain's prestige in the Near East to its lowest point in history...
...remarked that playwrighting should be included as a part of the function of a college dramatic club as well as the production of plays...
This neglected function falls under two heads: annual series of lectures given by the University, and lectures given under the auspices of a department. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, the eleventh year of which will feature an outstanding Swiss architect, are typical of the former type. Likewise, Archibald MacLeish will read his poetry this week under the Morris Gray poetry fund; the week after, President Baxter of Williams will deliver three lectures for the Committee on the extra-curricular reading of American history...