Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Taussig is the right man for the task. For many years his sound thinking and big personality have commanded increasing respect not only in the ranks of theorists, but also among the practical business men and legislators of the day. It is quite natural that this great ability should be needed at Washington in the perplexing decade ahead. When his national service is completed we sincerely hope that he will return to take up his old position as a member of the Faculty and brilliant expounder of economic principles...
...page photograph entitled "The Spirit of '76." We do not know whether this production is numbered among Mr. Maxim's literary works or whether it was dashed off for the occasion, in which case it would be discourteous to criticize it. Mr. Maxim takes the patriotic eagle severely to task for having ceased to scream. With all respect we would suggest that a screaming eagle is not a happy symbol for any nation, that what our patriotism suffers from more than anything else is a super-abundance of screaming, and that perhaps when we have ceased to scream we shall...
...position of the College today is due not so much to its age, traditions and able administration as to its noble line of teachers. The reputation for the highest grade of instruction must be retained at all costs. Even with plenty of money this will be no easy task, as the recent losses in the Philosophy Department indicate; but at the present time even funds are lacking. The Endowment Fund aims to help the present staff to meet the rising cost of living and to provide adequate funds for the maintenance of Harvard's traditional high grade of instruction...
...scheduled on April 16 with the Boston Lacrosse Club, which is composed of graduates who formerly played on the University team. In preparation for this game the squad will be divided into teams next week, and scrub games will be played. There is no lack of material and the task is one of choosing the 12 men who will form the best-balanced organization...
...that the men will be able to row on the lake before the end of the month. Coach Spaeth has as yet been unable to choose a permanent combination, but with five men from the eight which defeated the University, Yale, Pennsylvania, Columbia and the Navy last spring, his task is not a difficult...