Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last two weeks. After careful deliberation the Faculty has passed a splendid resolution which will satisfy the most ardent militarists and most zealous patriots. Harvard men can feel assured that their University is still keeping far in the lead and giving the Government greater assistance in the task of training officers than it has ever asked...
...produces in brave men an eagerness to be of immediate service. This is natural; it is good; but there is something better. The soldier's task requires patience in matters of which he cannot see the direct utility. Most undergraduates want to help the country in the coming conflict; but the Government itself has not yet formed in detail its plans for raising an army, or at least has not made them public, and the student is still more in the dark about the opportunities that will be open to him. Until he knows more he will do well...
...ahead. Timid messages of caution or good-will are past. The Allies have had our sympathy and moral support for the last two years, but the righteous opportunity has come for us to change our attitude. From now on our every element of strength should be concentrated on the task of suppressing a military power that has long lost regard for the most fundamental and humane rights of other peoples. Sacrifices by American citizens must be made and they will be made readily and joyfully. Yet the sooner the American manufacturer, banker, professor, business man, and politician offer their services...
...quality of its performances constitute another item in the rapidly increasing achievements of Dr. Davison in proving false the prevalent notion that the American college student is too light-minded a creature to undertake anything worth while in intellectual or artistic fields, and too irresponsible to finish a good task begun. The singing of the chorus yesterday was more than a serious attempt honestly accomplished; one may judge it by mature artistic standards...
...success of this courageous undertaking. Still more praise is due to Dr. Davison for the planning and execution of the details of training so large a body of students in work of so serious a character. But by far the greatest, worthiest and most dashing effect of the task and its achievement must be that of inevitably broadening and intensifying musical interest and understanding in the minds of the participants themselves. And this undoubtedly means more to Dr. Davison than everything else put together