Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some past deficits, but it is altogether too large if the Union is to continue to operate on a business basis. Its endowment is sure to become exhausted before many such lean years elapse, and then it will have to shut up shop, or undertake the difficult and unpleasant task of raising a new endowment...
...this field should be left undeveloped. Recent "college fiction" has shown the acute need of sanity and skill in this field, at least. It is no logical objection to say that the undergraduate is not mature enough to write for the average reader. It is not so great a task to produce very readable fiction. There are numerous fields open to the ambitious author. He can try his hand at the short story or the lucrative moving picture scenario. The latter seems to be a singularly felicitous medium for the undergraduates...
...there is no disagreement as to the great efficiency of even this short period for the infusion of what is, from the army point of view, "correct" military sentiment. It is on this very ground that the camps must be firmly opposed. The patriotism which it is the peculiar task of the educated college man to exercise must cease to be linked with military service if progress toward universal peace is ever to be made...
Although in 1913, with the exception of Great Britain, the reserves of the other powers were each estimated at over a million, the United States has no reserves whatever. The present task of Lord Kitchener bespeaks the effect of Great Britain's policy. There is a general confidence in our volunteer system. Experience has shown that many hundreds of thousands would readily respond to a call, and this mere statement of the numbers available is apt to produce a false feeling of security. General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, has declared that 300,000 men would be necessary at the outset...
...University Bureau of Business Research, established in 1911 by the Graduate School of Business Administration "to gather facts about business for purposes of instruction," is undertaking a work as novel as it is important. The task of investigating the various branches of the retail trade with the view of helping the small retailers to conduct their business at low cost and to cope with large and better organized competitors is no small one, but already noteworthy results have been produced. In an article entitled "Scientific Business," which appeared in a recent number of "The New Republic", Mr. Melvin Thomas Copeland...