Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to innumerable "outside" friends of the University, it would be impossible, and for many reasons, impracticable, to conduct a short quick campaign. If a substantial part of the desired sum is in hand by next Commencement, the committee will feel that a satisfactory start on the great task has been made. ROBERT F. DUNCAN '12, Secretary, Endowment Fund Committee...
...offered open encouragement to the members of the R. O. T. C. When the call for enlistment comes, they should not hesitate. Realizing their duty as American citizens, they have already stepped forward to discharge it to the best of their ability. Without question, they have begun their task well. Is it possible that they will be satisfied to leave it unfinished...
Educating Mexico is an undertaking not to be entered upon lightly. The task of bringing a people from educational darkness into light is one which calls for an administrator of the utmost tact and executive ability, for unselfish devotion on the part of a large body of professors, and for considerable funds of money. It may be expected to yield large results, not only in the regeneration of Mexico, but in the promotion of more amicable relations between the two sister republics of North America. The Mexicans have neither the resources nor the equipment to educate themselves...
...great munition concerns who are supposed to desire the most terrible of wars. It may be the case that one or two of the writer's accusations can be regarded seriously. He complains that we have declared war already by taking the Harvard Union for American Neutrality to task. War has not been declared against Germany, but against any individual or group who regard the present a time to think and debate in seclusion instead of bending every energy toward active preparedness. The Harvard Union for American Neutrality should have been formed months ago, and then it might have arrived...
...long campaign for enrolments in the R. O. T. C. closed last night. Fortunately the seriousness of the task was enlivened by heated arguments, impassioned sallies on the part of the opposition and semi-humorous retorts by the frenzied militarists who have suddenly appeared in our midst. The response of the members of the University to the imperative call for trained officers has been splendid. The final enrolment in the training unit is well over a thousand men which means that the same number have been willing to give double the amount of time required for the Regiment of last...