Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday, February 22, I attended the Hasty Pudding production of "Suede Expectations" with a friend. Along with the rest of the audience and cast, we were subjected to the most embarrassing display of juvenile, sophomoric and mean-spirited behavior I have ever witnessed at a Harvard function. Throughout the performance, a handful of the black-tied "sophisticates" in the audience persisted in heckling and verbally abusing the members of the cast, who were doing their level best to continue with their excellent performances. It got so bad that the curtain had to be dropped at one point and an announcement...
Under a limited-debit system, dinners would still have the same social function as before, while students would enjoy the flexibility of a cash system. An acceptable balance would be struck. If it became necessary to ensure this balance, the University could make only lunches refundable, although this measure would probably not be needed...
...become significant presences in the lives of many viewers. Their private lives thus seem a genuine public concern. This is reflected, according to Everette Dennis, executive director of the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University, in the news media's "increased blurring of the entertainment and information function...
...have such people anymore at the universities, and the reason is tenure. When the time comes to grant it nowadays, the radicals get screened out. That's its principal function. It's a very good system, really--keeps academic life at a decent level of tranquility...
Council members also said that confusion has arisen among students over the purpose of reading period, which many believe should be reserved solely for studying for exams. The function of reading period should be made clear to students, said Cathy L. Jamieson...