Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eleven that was defeated last week by Washington and Jefferson, and the line from tackle to tackle should be practically impenetrable; but if Colgate proves to have in reserve a dangerous forward pass, Yale's chances will be lessened, for the Yale ends have proved unequal to the task of diagnosing this play all the season...
...judge from the results of games played Saturday by Harvard's coming opponents, the University team will have a strenuous task during the next few weeks. All of the teams which are coming to the Stadium this month were decisively successful in their contests Saturday. Most successful among these was the Virginia eleven which will appear in Cambridge next Saturday. Its opponent, Richmond College, is little known in the football world, but it is significant that the university eleven was able to overwhelm them with a deluge of 74 points. Cornell, who will test the mettle of Coach Haughton...
...Union problem is still unsolved. Membership and receipts have been further diminished, and much of the recent saving has been due to postponing needed repairs. Mr. Clark takes up a difficult task, and he will need all the undergraduate support available...
...School has suffered an irreparable loss by the death of Dean Thayer. Five years work at the head of the school had proved his pre-eminent fitness for the task which he assumed in 1910, when he gave up assured distinction at the bar for an academic career. He was a man of rare endowments. From early boyhood his brilliancy of mind and strength of character was marked. Always first as a student in school, College and Law School, he nevertheless found time for much besides study. Whatever interested others in the way of physical sport or social diversion interested...
America has always been weak in accurate knowledge of her own material and social condition. Indeed it is a significant fact that our economists frequently have to go to European countries for statistical evidence. This they must then attempt to apply to American conditions,-a task which will become more difficult, if the United States succeeds in remaining the only first class nation not devastated by war. At present most economic data in this country is collected by government bureaus, which, as Professor Bullock points out, are always liable to political influences. Particularly do those more fundamental fields of study...