Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point is not that certain subjects were formally out of bounds for theses or that obscure materials did not sometimes contribute to understanding, but that an undergraduate thesis served a special function. Seniors were not expected to write as trained academics, generating original research available to other scholars. They were not expected to do so precisely because they were not trained academics and because their work would never reach other scholars. Nor did they typically have the time or money for travel that good, in-depth original research requires...
...Although we couldn't pinpoint the specific problem, we are cautiously optimistic that the transmitter will continue to function," Greene said...
Dant's Purgatorio and Shakespeare's King Lear serve the same function for Purgatory as Milton's Paradise Lost did for Mintz, supplying characters, plot details and many of the show's cleverest lines. The thematic link between the Lear and Purgatorio motifs is the search for a missing woman who represents some kind of an ideal. For LaZebnik's Lear, who is both actor and director in a play about himself, it is Cordelia who is lost, while for Thomas, the young male lead, it is the elusive Adeline, who takes the place of Dante's Beatrice. Since Tome...
...education in the United States, outlining proposals for general education courses and requirements as they exist at Harvard and many other colleges today. The report's basic premise holds that there is a core of knowledge essential to a citizen in a free society and that it is the function of general education to provide that core...
...Watson's roof really didn't fall down, since everything else in the ancient rink was breaking during the course of the game. Harvard's special Depression-model scoreboard was trotted out of mothballs at the start of the second period when the more modern overhead board ceased to function, and one of the glass boards behind the Crimson goal cracked under the pressure of the third period, necessitating another punctuation of action...