Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there are so many men in the University strongly opposed to it in practice and principle. Still the same may be said of the orals, which are not notable for their popularity but which cannot be escaped even by those who like them lest. However, it would be a task not lightly to be undertaken to round up a thousand or more rebellious young men and compel them to mark time and shoulder arms a couple of times a week...
...already done so, are urged to fill out their class history blanks and return them to the Photograph Committee at once. The record of each man has to be carefully examined by the committee and put into proper form for the printer. This in itself is a considerable task, but the work will be enormously increased if it is allowed to accumulate until the middle of February. As additions may be made at any time before the Album finally goes to press there should be no hesitation on the part of anyone in sending in his class history...
...University is wise in not forcing attendance. When men are herded to church, they lose most of its benefits because their attitude is wrong. Chapel, after all, is a frame of mind, and not a daily task. As a mental condition which does not begin at 8.45 o'clock nor cease at 9, but carries over through the entire day, it is an asset. Religion is not a state of coma, a pleasing reverie, but a positive and driving force. It is energy. If this is the case, the Chapel habit is at least worth investigating, whether it finally proves...
When criticism is made of the manner in which many courses in the University are conducted, the captious student often fails to appreciate fully the fact that it is no simple task for a professor to step down from the platform and view in retrospect faults in his system. If the latter were able to assume the dual role of lecturer and critic, even then it would not be surprising if many of the weaknesses in his treatment of the subject were overlooked...
...this evening at 8 o'clock on "Water Power and Man Power." His talk will be illustrated by stereopticon slides. Mr. Cooper is one of the foremost engineers of the country. Among other feats, he drove a tunnel under the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, which was considered an impossible task. Perhaps his most important exploit was the planning and building of the great water power dam across the Mississippi at Keokuk, Iowa. The dam is nine-tenths of a mile long, being made up of one hundred and nineteen arched spans...