Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thought of the present is desirable. Scholars usually shrink from this field, probably because critical judgments are hard to make and no-true perspective is possible, But the effort is especially important now, owing to the great changes which are going on in society. It will be a difficult task to bring order out of the seeming chaos of ideas and emotions which fills modern literature, but one worth ambition. Dr. Bernbaum's studies in the literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. When the problems of the present were in process of birth, together with his well-known...
Andover has a strong team, which defeated Yale 1919 by 4 goals to 3 Hence The University freshman will have a hard task on its hands. Admission will be free...
...should know that if Gallipoli and Saloniki are unknown to students it is not the fault of the course. It is true that the earnest student is so swamped with work in learning what men have written in the past that he must largely defer until graduation the pleasanter task of reading what they are writing now. Even so, he grows while in college; and the senior usually is not such an unintellectual beast as the undergraduate is painted...
...committee which has in charge the bettering of undergraduate English has, therefore, a large task before it. To require students who are deficient in their literary expression to take an extra course in English is a doubtful remedy. English A should give a man the requisite fundamental knowledge which a further, uninteresting, dry course would not augment. The objection to English is not in the English courses but in other curriculum departments. The remedy is not in forcing more English down the throats of delinquents, but in making them utilize what they have. Assuming that students who have passed English...
...work of the ministry in the modern world is two-fold. It is, first, a task of inspiration and instruction. Here is a great mass of speculations and faiths which the modern world inherits which have to do with the nature of the Eternal Spirit and of the heart of man; with the problems of sin and suffering and ignorance and of what is to be the end of it all. On these great questions the minister speaks. Particularly as a Christian leader he endeavors to restate in the language of the moment, and from the world view...