Word: task
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...last night was a consideration of the Philippine question from the point of view of an American Christian. The speaker, who has been consecrated Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippine Islands, has never visited the Islands, and so spoke not of the concrete difficulties of his task, but of the general problem to be faced by the nation. The nation, he said, is now in a state of depression over the task before it, a natural reaction from the excitable enthusiasm of a year or two ago. When these two stages are past, the country will...
...thousand Americans in Manila alone, and from them the natives get their ideas of our country. No official promises or reports can have any such effect over the natives, as will the actions of the Americans they see before them. To the American Church in the Philippines belongs the task of giving a good representation of our people to the natives...
...editorial is worth reading--and believing. In "College Kodaks" the Advocate editors have set themselves the hard task of commenting, lightly and yet with no obvious attempt at joking, upon the little happenings and phases of college life. For the excellence of the aim, one may easily pardon the treatment which has as yet been only partly satisfactory...
...only raises several interesting questions of detail, but also puts very clearly the two essential elements in the distribution of tickets: namely, that the method of distribution and the preferences be publicly stated; and that the method be announced before the game and not afterwards. It is a great task to deal out 32,000 or 35,000 tickets on any system, but it is a task performed every week in grand opera season by the Boston Theatre. We all realize the rush and the vexation, but plainly the nervous strain of the process is much increased if the manager...
...Athletic Committee and the leading graduates interested in rowing, to help the Harvard crew out of the rut into which it had fallen. He was a man of great natural enthusiasm and charming manner, the College and the rowing men were delighted with him and went at the task with renewed hope and vigor...