Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Might I humbly suggest that either your reporter revise his terminology, or examiners of teachers revise their routine to include a cursory perusal of that important area devoted to the function of thought, a few anatomical notches above the cerebellum? I wager many a sagging cortex, many a short-circuited corpus callosum will thus be disclosed...
These seven Counselors will hold, apparently, one year appointments and are to perform no other teaching function than that of armchair pedagogues who sit and wait for pupils to ferret them out. From the lively group of Yardlings already on the trail of Americana under the direction of the Freshman pathfinder, and from the number who responded in one House to the experiment of an English tutor, there is certainly no lack of enthusiasm, which situation graces with practicality the scheme of House Counselors. Nevertheless, it seems plausible that the seven can be of greater service to the Plan...
...addition to their counseling, it is understood that the appointees will do research or write a long-planned masterpiece. But although this part of their function should be encouraged, at the same time it is clear that they are most useful to undergraduates, for whom they were appointed, when working for them. Likewise, if their success is great, the University ought not to overlook any chance of turning them into instructors or tutors. The latest proposed extension of the Plan cannot promise a more practical approach to the stimulation of interest in American history and literature unless the Counselors...
Final approval of next year's Visiting Committees rests with the Overseers. Formerly they have performed this function at their annual meeting in October, but this year a new plan may go into effect whereby the Overseers will have their meeting for this purpose at Commencement...
...Commerce Daniel Roper's Business Advisory Council, he be came Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1935, has since pleased Franklin Roosevelt by his frequent high-sounding definitions of New Deal intentions. Sample: "By some method yet to be discovered, it seems to me that industry must learn to function as a whole, not to advance its own private ends but to assist Democracy to act for the good...