Word: task
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...relation between the governing board and the members of the faculty is not the relation of employer and employee, or superior and inferior, of master and servant, but "one of mutual cooperation for the promotion of the scholars' work." Both these elements in the university community have their task to perform, the one a task of expert character, and the other of a non-expert perhaps public, character. But the final authority, as President Lowell boldly says, must ever be the non-professional element, not only because it controls the pursestrings and is responsible for the financial management...
...task of the University for the immediate future," says President Lowell, summing up his annual report, "should be the perfecting of its existing departments rather than branching out into new fields of work...
...college courses, the only two which seemed to have escaped the active criticism of faculty and students were the Student Liberal Clubs of Oberlin and of the University. Yet these clubs and others like them feel the need for a central organization which should aid in the task of securing speakers and circulate information concerning the activities of similar clubs in other colleges. In this way the value of the individual clubs to its members, to the college and to the community at large could be considerably enhanced...
...Powers has had charge of the external debt; it handled the revenues from salt, petroleum and other monopolies, and from several duties. This financial support will go with Constantine's arrival, and without the occurrence of a miracle the King will never succeed in keeping Greece from bankruptcy--a task that has been difficult enough for three European nations...
...Princeton there has been no lack of enthusiasm in her minor sports and, at Yale, interest has always been kept up. Harvard, having let this spirit die down, has a hard task ahead of her in building it up again. Princeton's recognition with a Varsity letter of a championship minor sport team is a fair award which will prove a great incentive in the future. This, after all, is the best way of solving the problem. Daily Princetonian