Word: task
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well known, the eleven leaves this afternoon for Springfield to play their last game for the season. The task which they have before them is no easy one. Yale is sure to put an excellent team in the field, and victory, if we win, will be hard earned. These facts, however, should only make us the more resolute; and that our team may feel encouraged we must make up our minds to continue in every way the hearty support which we have thus far given them. There is no surer way to urge them to victory than by showing them...
...time on until the team dissolves, to train faithfully at all times. If the members of the freshman team had understood this and had acted accordingly, some of them would not have appeared so unfit to play as they did yesterday. The team must feel the size of their task and must know that only work can bring victory. The time is now short but the decided change for the better which we look for will bring about astonishing results...
...core, they must go to work and examine systems deemed defective. They must study the grievances and their causes, and they will then, and only then see the evil as it really is. But for a reformer to devote himself to all reforms would be a senseless task. He must choose some single thing which he thinks needs reforming and do his best to bring about the desired reform. He must not work alone, however; he must join a small body of men, who have the same objects in view, and their combined efforts are bound to bear good fruit...
...This task which has been offered to the American school will doubtless require the labor of many years. This is not to be regretted, since these years will develop a new generation of American scholars, and will be no less rich in popular enlightenment, here in America in regard to the art and literature, the religion and the politics of the wonderful race to which we so largely owe our own civilization...
...friends of this project are sure that if it could be brought properly to the attention of all our fellow citizens capable of appreciating its importance, abundant contributions for its accomplishment would be at once assured. In this preliminary task, the students of our own truly national university, gathered here from every community of the common fatherland, are above all others in a position to render effective service. The writer hopes that all who are willing to assist in putting an appeal into the hands of the enlightened friends of higher education in other cities and states. will make themselves...