Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...task of raising the money for this loan is that of the entire nation, and not of any one class or group of citizens," said N. P. Hallowell '97, chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee of New England, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. "Take this committee as an example. We are here offering our services--a practically self-appointed committee--advocating the sale of Liberty Bonds, yet there is no more reason for our being here than for any or all of you men out at Cambridge doing the same thing. All of the people of this nation...
...Committee has been formed in Paris, under the name of Comite Nationale d'Etudes and composed of M. Hovelaque (Inspector of Public Instruction), M. de Lapradelle (Professor of Law), M. Lichtenberger (Professor of German Language and Literature, former French Exchange Professor at Harvard), and Professor J. H. Woods. The task of the Committee is to collect methodically all available information concerning the trend of public opinion in America, both for a better understanding in France of the American point of view, and for use by the French Foreign Office, War Office and other branches of Government. The Committee wants chiefly...
...American Library Association if he did not thoroughly believe in the value of books to fighting men. By setting aside 50 tons of shipping space per month, he has made it possible for the American Library Association to send to France a monthly average of 100,000 volumes. This task the American Library Association has cheerfully undertaken...
...bidding. From shop and home they come, from the canons of great cities, from the gray cloisters of the universities, all march behind the great van of the tyrant, all with high ideals and hearts undisturbed by the grim realities around them. For theirs is the task of cleansing the modern Augean stables, and with mighty arm and mind they bend to the task...
...course we are aware that it is a very difficult task to turn out a strong team in one year, especially handicapped as Harvard is by the lack of a tank. However, a start could be made next year, and it seems reasonable to suppose that in a few years Harvard would be one of the strongest contenders for the championship in the Intercollegiate Association, due to its enrolment and the quantity of good material that would be drawn from the New England schools, should Harvard take up this sport...