Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate students. It does not seem unreasonable that Harvard College undergraduates should take preference over other groups in the use of the Harvard College Library. The graduate schools have libraries of their own and the instructor's status as a student, while commendable, is always secondary to his primary function as teacher...
...second factor was the growth of tax-supported education. Mr. Conant realized that it was inevitable and by no means undesirable that the State should come to educate more and more of its citizens. He grasped clearly the necessity of a shift in the basic function of the privately endowed institution. Although a little vague as to what the precise nature of this new function would be, or how it would affect the enrollments and courses of today, it was apparent that he was seeking still other fields of public service...
Young Barkley was a forerunner of the youths who work their way through college taking magazine subscriptions. He sold kitchenware form house to house. The best senior honor at Marvin was the Declamation Prize. Senior Barkley won that. He remembers that for a long time afterward no function was considered complete unless he delivered his recitation...
Young Barkley was a forerunner of the youths who work their way through college taking magazine subscriptions. He sold kitchenware from house to house. The best senior honor at Marvin was the Declamation Prize. Senior Barkley won that. He remembers that for a long time afterward no function was considered complete unless he delivered his recitation...
...trade with non-agreement countries in creased 9.2%." Not on the platform but at a press conference Cordell Hull underscored his belief still further by a prediction that a general war or economic catastrophe is inevitable within two years unless selfish nationalists give international trade a chance to function...