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...Enlist the interest of every pupil in every school in his daily task...
...Year's Task...
...State Superintendent of Schools of Mississippi has set himself the following year's task: to enumerate the educable children in the state; to codify the school law so that school trustees "can understand it by reading it"; to establish a course of study such that the " principal of a one-teacher school" will know how to teach all eight grades; to establish an average rural term of seven months; to form at least one hundred additional consolidated schools...
...other evening Mr. Mengelberg and the Philharmonic orchestra applied themselves to a laborious task. This was Mahler's Seventh Symphony, which represents hard work for all hands through a full hour and a half. The result of the adventure was to renew the loud chorus of those who dislike Mahler's music. They are many, and their dislike is intense. The criticisms of the work in the morning papers were savage...
...with mutilated faces and bodies half burned, with broken skulls, floated and mingled with the blocks of ice, looking for their graves: or, turning in the furious whirlpools among the jagged blocks, they were ground and torn to pieces into shapeless masses, which the river, nauseated with its task, vomited out upon the islands and projecting sand-bars. . . . In on place at a turn of the river I saw a great heap of horses, which had been cast up by the ice and current, in number not less than three hundred...