Word: functions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...another column is an article which explains the function of the Harvard Alumni Association Appointment Office. It proposes not only to place men who want positions, but to explain to any man the qualifications which fit one for the various fields of business...
With the increasing demand for men of college training, the Appointment Office performs a function of the greatest importance. Not only do Harvard graduates often prefer to offer positions to Harvard men, but many large concerns are testing the product of the important universities. Men who intend to enter business may obtain valuable information gratis from this source...
...some arrangement to provide trained men for emergency officers in the navy. Surely there is no fallacy in this idea, for the peculiar situation of the United States, between two oceans, emphasizes the importance of an efficient navy. The proposed cruise of four weeks should serve well the triple function which is announced...
...editing articles by men of reputation, preferably alumni, and by writing short reviews and notes. Harvard has produced many men of distinction as composers, critics, and teachers. Upon these the Review might call, and by adopting a plan of this kind, the magazine should more nearly fulfill its proper function in the College world. There is at present no standard musical paper in the country, as there was formerly no standard law periodical. The high position which the Law Review has attained indicates that a similar place is open to the Musical Review under a revised policy...
...thought which are bred by the reading of highly inflected languages. But it is paradoxical to champion the Classics on the ground of their practical advantages. Their chief value cannot be measured by materialistic standards. Since they form the corner stone of the humanities, they fulfill their highest function in affording their, devotes the noble opportunity of repudiating the utilitarian theory of education