Word: functions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...President then adds: "The need is a serious one; it exists at the very centre of University, considered as a place of study and research, and the very fact that it is so keenly felt signifies that the Library is fulfilling, though under difficulties, its all important function; but as was stated in the President's Report for 1887-8, it is a need which the President and Fellows are quite unable to satisfy with any resources now at their command...
...Council, which consisted of the president, professors and assistant professors of the university, and was empowered to recommend to the President and Fellows candidates for the degrees of Master of Arts, Doctor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy. This council is now called the University Council and its sole function is to consider questions of university policy. The power of recommending candidates for the degrees of A. M., Ph. D. and S. D. is now vested in the faculty of arts and sciences, which consists of the former college faculty, and any members of the professional school faculties who give...
...governing board was provided for, to be called the University Council. It consists of the president, professors and assistant professors of the university and such other university officials as the corporation, with the consent of the overseers, may appoint members of the council. It is the function of the council to consider questions which concern more than one faculty, and quest one of university policy...
...said that the inscriptions interpret or illustrate every branch of Old Testament study, Genesis, the history, the poetry, the religion, and, to a special degree, the prophets. The Hebrew prophet is not, as the popular notion too often makes him, primarily a student of the distant future, whose chief function is predictive. On the contrary he is a reformer, a preacher of righteousness, a man of affairs, concerned with the present, and rarely, if ever, looking to the future except to draw thence new arguments for in fluencing the lives of his contemporaries. The picture of the future is such...
...from purchasing at the close of each collegiate year a large number of photographs of men and things that have interested him, is the expense involved. By recently improved processes it has now become possible excellently to reproduce photographs at a cost much below that of the originals. The function in the new publication is, then, to furnish in permanent form a representative collection of such reproductions. That "The Harvard Portfolio," therefore, may, from the start, adequately fulfill its mission, two things are necessary: first, an excellent quality of work, and, second, as complete a collection of illustrations as possible...