Word: functions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...demand the right of way on all canals and railroads for the transportation not only of civilian supplies but of war supplies amounts to a denial of Dutch neutrality. Control of transit is a vital function of every nation. To submit to foreign dictation is to abandon sovereignty. Moreover, the obligation of neutrality demands that Holland refuse any step which will be of direct gain to the enemy in its prosecution of the war. This side of the affair is clear, the laws of nationality and neutrality make the acceptance of the proposal impossible...
...13th annual Junior Dance of the University, which this year will be the only class function of 1919, will take place in the Union this evening. Starting promptly at 9 o'clock, the program of 20 dances will continue until 3 tomorrow morning, with a break for supper at 11.30. Aside from the fact that all unnecessary expenses will be eliminated, this year's entertainment will be run much as in former years before the outbreak...
...salvaging the social wreckage that forms in its wake. (2) Modern life overemphasizes the materialistic. Strong enough in any age, the magnetic pull of the almighty dollar is redoubled in this age of material expansion. Mr. Lazarus talks as if we heard nothing of money in everyday life. The function of the college is not to copy life, but to correct...
...other graduates who preserved in later life the vigorous enthusiasm of youth are noticed at some length in the Book Reviews,--John Fiske and Edward Everett Hale. As figures in our national literature, they are fairly well known to the public at large; these reviews will perform a useful function in enticing readers to the bulky biographies recently issued. Yesterday seems so far away that one is grateful for these accounts of latter-day giants...
...files of this year's CRIMSON are gone over, it will be seen that many communications on both sides of questions have been published. This has been the function of the communication department, and it will continue to be its function. The opinions held by the individual members of the CRIMSON Board will never prevent one holding contrary views from presenting his case to the College. The CRIMSON wants letters from all sides, but it wants such letters to be signed and more than persiflage...