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...growing force in every country standing for perfectly definite things and standing for them at all costs. Definite action on our part is the only thing that will meet it. If we decide that repression is the remedy, we must send into Russia a force adequate for such a task. If we decide that Russia must work out her own salvation we must remain strictly neutral...
Captain Morize will be the principle speaker of the afternoon. His subject is "The Task of Reconstruction...
...Massachusetts Committee has been assigned the task of raising $1,500,000, which is the Bay State's quota of the national drive for $30,000,000 for relief work in the near East...
...less dupery shall exist. Certainly it is too late to elevate the laborer; educate rather the child. Open wide the door of opportunity; the ability and capability, of man await only its opening. We talk of democracy, much as if we had it. To realize it is our huge task and the elemental step in its solution must be the popularizing and democratizing of the educational opportunities of this country and of every country...
Sabine undertook the task put before him, and worked at it assiduously for some months with entire success so far is the auditorium of the Fogg Museum was concerned. But he was not content with this success. He proposed to study himself the problem of acoustics with such thoroughness as to make it a part of science. In the course of a few years he was able to do what no other man, so far as we know, had ever been able to do, that is, to foretell with confidence and accuracy from the mere plan and materials...