Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sword of the fragments which Sieglinde had given him. Mime is in despair, for he has tried to do this many times without success. At this juncture Wotan enters, disguised as a wanderer. He seeks news of Siegfried, and asks Mime's hospitality. Siegfried upon returning finds Mime's task unaccomplished, so he forges the sword himself, all the while singing a magnificent song. The sword finished, he strikes the anvil asunder...
...probable inferiority of the visiting team is to a great extent offset by the condition of the University men, which has been seriously affected by the forced travelling of the past few days. Coach Haughton will probably start R. B. Frye '15 in the box, while the pitching task for Dartmouth rests between Parrott and Perry...
...Professor Meyer who are responsible for most of whatever anti-German sentiment exists in the United States today. If Harvard should lose its "fairness and good will" toward Germany, it will be such as Professor Meyer who are to blame. No University likes to be taken sharply to task for what, if it is a fault at all, is a microscopic one; or to have its right of free speech criticized by one whose ideals of free speech are as Teutonic as Professor Meyer...
...style, its performance was notable for spirit, sympathy and just appreciation of its contests. While Beethoven's Overture presents difficulties of a different order, its classic style is more easily assimilable. Here again the orchestra played with a rhythmic incesiveness and excellent ensemble. Handel's Concerto imposes a difficult task even upon well disciplined strings, and that the Pierian succeeded in giving so substantial a proportion of the qualities of this rather casual music redounds to its credit. While some of the tempi might be open to credit, the interpretation was none the less eminently Handelian...
...larger share of the task of changing existing conditions falls upon the Freshman and Sophomore classes. Men can be developed, but the process takes time. In no other field is there so much assurance of return for time expended Results are certain, but patience and diligence are necessary to obtain them...