Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...articles are: "Roads toward Peace," by President-emeritus Charles W. Eliot; "International Understanding," by Hugo Muensterberg; "The East and the West in the Twentieth Century," by Professor M. Anesaki; "The Task of the Interpreter," by Professor Josiah Royce; and "University Ideals in England, Germany, and the United States," by Professor Francis G. Peabody. George W. Nasmyth, of the Harvard International Polity Club, in his talk "Above all Humanity are the Nations," reverses the ideal of the Club, and then pleads that the Cosmopolitan watchword is the expression of the fundamental social truth, "Above all Nations is Humanity." Louis P. Lochner...
...rather good. Baker, Blackmur, Chubb, Fenn, Grinnell, Captain J. C. Jennings, Nichols and Withington, will be lost by graduation, leaving J. M. Jennings, Moffat, Norris, O'Neill, Ricketson and Weld as a nucleus for next season's eleven. An abundance of second string and 1918 players should render the task of filling the vacant places easy...
...task is no small one; he must rebuild a team, which has sustained heavy losses through graduation. But that he is the man for the work, there is no question. His eleven, inbued with the sprit of its captain, is sure to acquit itself creditably...
President Schurman of Cornell, addressing the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, spoke of the task which, because of the European war, has devolved upon the American universities. "So long as the European up-heaval continues, it will devolve on the colleges and universities of America to take the lead in upholding the civilization of the world." Continuing on the subject of the military training given at Cornell President Schurman said: "Valuable as a military training is for the individual himself and for the Republic, it is of course only an incident in the main work and business...
...difficulty has arisen from the very excess of material, which has caused the coaches to experiment with a larger number of men than usual and has made the task of selecting the best players a hard one. The process of weeding out has been lengthy, and this probably as much as anything else has retarded the development of the team. In the last two weeks, however, considerable progress has been made in this line...