Word: functions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This affair is taken advantage of by a considerable number of men each year, whether they are spreading elsewhere or not. Attendance in former years has varied from 100 to more than 200 persons, and despite a curtailment of the elaborateness of the function an equally large gathering is expected this season...
...members of the detachment will act as instructors in the University July Camp and will possibly perform the same function at the June course at Plattsburg...
...with it large-scale production and great centralization of industry. Its whole development has meant the sacrifice of small business and the elimination of competition. The ordinary laborer today lives through a daily routine of minute detail. His life is but a process of repetition of some small industrial function. And on the other side, the great monopolies of production have grown up and have seemed to make the system of private property but an instrument of the fortunate. It is under such conditions that social discontent has demanded a new order. With the increasing power of universal suffrage...
...over in a few weeks; there will be, as you know, a terrible loss of officers. Look at the British casualty lists for the last few weeks, and note the proportion of officers killed and wounded. It is by preparing yourselves as fully as possible to fulfil that function eventually that you will show the most intelligent realization of your duty. If you go and drive an ambulance in Italy or a motor-truck in France, or clean the motor of an airplane behind the lines somewhere, you will be doing a useful and necessary work; but if you devote...
...Bulletin has touched before, however, on the desirability of maintaining the College as an institution of learning, and thereby performing a function of the highest value to the national life, just so long as there are any students to be taught. In looking ahead there are uncertainties enough without adding to their number by raising any doubts about the stability of our most firmly established universities. The new elective pamphlet is a comforting pledge that Harvard College, with many adaptations to present needs, will spread a generous table next year. Alumni Bulletin