Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud possessors of an office and meeting place in P.B.H., given through the generosity of Mrs. Robert R. Ames, the Student Council has for the third year continued its growth toward more and more efficacy and has this year so tightened its understanding of its primary functions that the Council President's report can philosophize about them. This is not unfortunate, because although the Council has not accomplished as many material results as its predecessor, from an objective interpretation of its purposes has arisen the important fact that the Council is necessarily different from similar organizations in other colleges...
...student council is supposed to afford. For students in those colleges which impose strict regulations upon undergraduate life, it is right that they have a loud voice in forming and administering their own codes. But this, we hope, will never be necessary at Harvard, and therefore the Council's function should be to keep one eye on University Hall and the other on the student's interest, with as much independence and as little formality as possible...
...land in mid-ocean which Pan American Airways uses as a way station for its trans-Pacific Clippers. For Wake Island's barren half acre, hydroponics is a natural. In the mild tropical climate no greenhouses will be necessary. If the open-air tanks of mineralized water function as expected, Wake Island will have fresh beans, tomatoes and other vegetables for the resident personnel and for the Clippers' crews and passengers...
...especially when the seats of power are held by men like Minton and Hague and Black, men whose ideas of government point to a Nazi form of state. In the complexity of modern life it is hard to winnow the chaff from the whet, and it is an important function for Harvard to teach her sons the art of thinking for themselves...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of Agriculture henry A. Wallace said today that a new battle to prevent the nation's judiciary from exercising power over administrative functions of government appears to have been opened as result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Kansas City stockyards case. Criticizing the stockyards decision--in which he charged that the Supreme Court reversed itself--and a proposal by a "prominent corporation attorney whose opinions in the post have carried great weight in the courts" that rate making powers of Federal regulatory agencies should be transferred by Congress to the courts, Wallace said, "One year...