Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover has mastered the forces of destruction, laid the foundations for recovery, earned the right to complete the task of reconstruction?Secretary of the Treasury Mills...
Certain weird sounds issuing from the rostrum of the Assembly of the League of Nations last week were only President Eamon de Valera opening the session with these words in Gaelic: "May God assist us in the exalted task before us; may He not permit that we should fail...
...Wildcat aggregation advanced on Cambridge confident of scoring at least once, but it went back to the hills with its tail twisted into knots to the tune of 35-0. This year a team admittedly inferior to the last one is coming to Harvard with no illusions about the task ahead of it, and consequently is more likely to accomplish something...
...lectures in different fields. As a matter of fact disagreement on fundamentals ought to be welcomed as the most effective stimulus to an honest attempt to solve real problems. Difference of opinion on university platforms has this significance for every undergraduate. It means that he must face the task of formulating for himself from various sources some unified philosophy of his own. It is up to him to decide how much the traditional humanistic ways of thought and how much the newer techniques of science will supply grist for his philosophical mill. That he finds one more palatable than another...
...also interested in your statement (in the same leader) that "the aim of education becomes more professional and less cultural" and that "fighting the spirit of the times is a vain and thankless task" which those in control of Harvard College ought not to undertake. This is very interesting. One has heard before, for sometime, that Harvard has sold out to the spirit of the times and gone in for "professional objectives" rather than "cultural ones." Dr. Flexner said something like that, and Dr. A. J. Nock, in their late internationally read books. I have heard it intimated in Oxford...