Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...response to the recommendations made. As each man's individual problem is considered, his choice of work is not limited to what he happens to prefer among the few things he may have heard of, but the whole range of charities is laid under tribute to furnish him the task that will be most satisfactory to him as well as most valuable of itself, and that will tend best to prepare him for those forms of public spririted service of his fellow-men which his expected future residence and profession will be likely to call for or favor. No unfamiliarity...
...undefiled city government in the mind of every Harvard student. It is said that Philadelphia is suffering at present from an epidemic of corruption and jobbery in municipal affairs; that the governing "ring" is so strongly intrenched, it is well-nigh impossible and hopeless to dislodge its members. The task of exposure, however, has been undertaken. The editor of City and State, Mr. Herbert Welsh, is carring on the municipal crusade in Philadelphia in as dauntless a fashion as that set in New York by our own Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Welsh will deliver an address in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday...
...task which the Memorial Society has set before itself is not one that can be accomplished in a year, or in fact, in any set time. Year by year, it is to be hoped, new accretions will be made, both to the visible memorials of Harvard life in the past, and to the general knowledge of that life among the members of the University...
...place an attempt will be made to mark with tablets or otherwise all rooms that have been occupied by distinguished graduates, and all buildings or sites having interesting historical associations with the University. This work will be under the charge of the Memorial Committee, who will make if their task each year to inform themselves by personal inquiry and research of all rooms and sites which may fitly be commemorated; and to secure from the families of distinguished men who have had college rooms, portraits, autographs or other things which can appropriately be preserved in the rooms as transmittenda...
...present law is difficult of execution.- (a) Against the wishes of the majority of the New York voters: Forum XX, 211 (Oct., 1895); Nat. LX, 67; Boston Herald, Sept. 29, Editorial.- (b) No police equal to the task: Nat. LX. 67; Forum XX, 211.- (c) Needless expense of time and money...