Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...limit the characterization to the point of fallacy. It were an economy of truth not to label it at all but to recognize that in such an institution the community of students is no more, no less, than a mirror of the world beyond the gates. Out task is to encourage others as we would anywhere. But let us have no more, pray, or privative characterization...
...entire undergraduate body, making a total of about $10,500. But only about 52 per cent of the college has subscribed, and collectors have again been appointed to canvass the rest of the college. As there will be only two or three men from each class for this task, the undergraduates should help them in every possible way, and it would save a great deal of work on their part if the men in each class who have not contributed would mail their pledges to one of the collectors as soon as possible. The following men have been appointed...
...Department of Agriculture, is an advance in his career as an economist. He has studied carefully and made extensive investigations into rural conditions, both here and abroad, with especial view to the scientific betterment of agricultural methods; and no one is better fitted to take up the difficult task of organizing our rural communities along the lines of greatest economic efficiency. Professor Carver will now have ample opportunity to apply and test the theories which he has formulated as a result of his studies of the past twenty years, and the CRIMSON wishes him the best of success in this...
...have no conception of the brotherhood of man. For instance, if a woman in Canton were to fall in a river before the eyes of a hundred men, they would let her drown. Nor have these foreign peoples any spiritual conception of the Deity. Christianity has before it the task of carrying the spiritual conception of the Deity into foreign lands. With it will go the consecration of the affections of the family. The most striking difference between Christian and Eastern religions lies in the conceptions of activity, of doing things for the benefit of others. The work...
There can come a great deal of good from the apparently simple task of defining "college" and "university" which the bill attempts. For too long the loose state of the law on the subject has allowed the public to be made the prey of men who could establish a "college," solicit funds, award degrees of more or less value and significance, and still not actually violate the law. For too long unsuspecting donors have been relieved of funds which they fondly believed were destined to help the cause of education but which really never accomplished the purpose for which they...