Word: performance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...officials goes. Equipped with such knowledge, we can wield a powerful weapon if we are but willing to shake off indolence and assume a task that is not always agreeable. For the average American has a horror of raising a disturbance, of taking exception to the way another man performs, or fails to perform, his duties. The one way to secure efficient service, however, is by such methods, always remembering that the criticism should be as far as possible sympathetic...
...pages of the CRIMSON," the writer says, "are interesting as a literal record of facts that concern us; the pages of the Lampoon, as a warped reflection of such facts, as satire, which, though often crude, is based on fact. The Advocate has a more difficult role to perform; avoiding literalness on the one hand and exaggeration on the other, it must utilize this same material of fact and make it interesting...
...through private initiative and generosity that the academies arose to take up the work which the grammar schools had failed to perform. The academies demonstrated, at the same time, the possibility of a secondary education adapted to the special needs and briefer educational careers of non-collegiate pupils of both sexes. Thus the enthusiastic support of our public high schools as we know them today was ultimately brought about during the years from 1826 to the present time. Although this country, through the state of Massachusetts, was very early committed to the maintenance of secondary schools supported partly or wholly...
Coming to more definite points of resemblance, we see that duty, however simple, is a religious act; for a failure to perform it involves the suffering of innocent persons. Again, duty is universal; that is, in following it we conform to a universal law, and any omission of it must be regarded as a sin. Here the similarity to religion and its laws is too clear to demand explanation. Finally, duty is always authoritative. It is the call of the whole world upon the individual, and for this reason it can never be avoided without some resulting misfortune. This call...
Living in the co-ops means sharing the responsibilities for food-shopping, cooking and cleaning. Students perform about four to six hours of household chores each week in order to accumulate the week's required number of brownie points...