Word: functions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Legal Aid Bureau is one of the Law School activities composed of men who were next in excellence of standing to those who now compose the Law Review. Their main function is the conducting of a free legal clinic now situated on the corner of Moore and Harvard streets, Cambridge...
...course it is true that great actions are not accomplished by a middle course. But the function of a periodical is not acts, but an intelligent discussion of acts. It must interpret the news, and to do so adequately it should not be swayed by passion. The present attitude of the "New Republic" is like that of the little boy who refuses to play because he has not received his full share of the pie, and is correspondingly useless. An attitude like that of "Harvey's Weekly", on the other hand, which indiscriminately damns all acts of President Wilson just...
...darkest day since the United States entered the war." With the German hordes pouring over the Marne, the allied armies apparently unable to give any adequate resistance, civilization seemed very much in the balance. And Memorial Day took on a new significance. Instead of a time-honored function to commemorate the dead of the Civil and the Spanish Wars,--a memory of battles which somehow lacked reality to the generation of college men,--we were gathered in honor of men, some of whose faces we had known, men who had died fighting for a cause which had become...
...such a rapid and mature educational growth as Beaune University can be produced and made to function by a group of Americans in a foreign country, 3,000 miles away, as it were, from their base, surely those interested in or connected with American universities are given food for much valuable thought Perhaps the same interest, the same initiative and creative energy which called Beaune University so miraculously into being, could perform equally great deeds, if employed in connection with many of the older educational institutions at home. At least the creation of Beaune, involving as it must have done...
...Harvard Engineering School has not received the publicity it deserves. Handicapped by starting in a war-time year, and lacking proper space and equipment, it has been forced to hide its light beneath a bushel. Next autumn., however, the school should be entirely ready to function on a permanent basis...