Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to direct attention to the call for candidates for the Mott Haven Team which appears this morning. The team has before it this year a difficult task, and in order to turn out point winners the first step is to obtain all the good material available. It should also be remembered that no branch of athletics offers such a promising field to new and untried men. Both for the sake of the team, and for the sake of the individuals, then, it is to be hoped that tonight's meeting will be attended by a large number of candidates...
...Index is the work of T. Frank Brownell '65, who is one of the Board of Managers of the Harvard Club of New York. Mr. Brownell is a man well in touch with all college movements, and he has shown great skill and accuracy in his rather laborious task...
...coaching has been nearly all in the line of destructive criticism and naturally the debaters have had no easy task to accomplish. They have, however, worked faithfully and hard and should be in the best possible form when they meet Harvard on Friday evening...
...Life of Gladstone," by Justin McCarthy. Macmillan Co., New York. The task of writing the life of a man who is not yet dead requires the exercise of so much discretion, and can but be attended with such difficulty in the way of gathering biographical material, especially of the personal sort, that it is rarely successful. We can not well say that Mr. McCarthy's Life of Gladstone is pithy. But it can by no means be criticised as a book that will permit of much skipping. Mr. McCarthy is always interesting. And in this book he tells the simple...
...bibliographer he worked in many lines, and as a historian he has set in order for other students the materials in the field which he made his own, and has had the good fortune to finish a wellrounded task, beginning with a history of his native town published nearly fifty years ago, followed by a history of the city which he served, and by a mounmental work on the history of America, supplemented by the story of the geographical discovery of America from the time of Columbus and his companions till the occupation of the continent...