Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your editorial-writer takes modern "educators" to task for their emphasis on "method." Dean Holmes retorts that there are more things in method than are dreamed of in your editorial-writer's philosophy. What are these things? For an answer, we might well consult that interesting but none too literate document--the catalogue of the Graduate School of Education. Its scope is indicated, more or less, by the following courses, picked at random and quoted verbatim...
Though more than a month ago the officials at Lehman Hall announced that the task of forming new rules concerning inter-House dining was entirely in the hands of the House Masters, and though a change is evidently desired by students, no action has been taken on the matter. The most practical plan for liberalization of the rules must allow House members to dine as the guests of friends living in other Houses, and at the same time remove the financial burden which new checks the hospitality of too many students. There must be certain restrictions, a limitation, consonant with...
...that you'll be filling the job of postmaster ' . . If we don't stand back of that man Herbert Hoover-then God help this country! In the very room where Lincoln wrestled to preserve the Union today sits a man with a face scarred and task-worn, trying to lead you and me and the world out of darkness...
...which he has built up as he built up the Chicago American and Los Angeles Herald, "Bill" Curley is Publisher Hearst's chief "trouble-shooter." From his Manhattan headquarters he dashes about to Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Mil waukee, doctoring Hearst evening papers, advising changes, sometimes hiring and (a task which he detests) firing...
Miss Segal and Mr. Purcell have attempted a thankless task. They have fought a good fight; they have taken lines that long ago heard the final count and made them get up on one elbow. But it is no use. No modern audience can be expected to laugh at repartee like this: "I should fall and break my neck." "That's immaterial to me. "Yes, but not to me." No audience wants to watch Miss Purcell being kittenish when the Chocolate Soldier invades her bedroom, agreeable as Miss Purcell certainly is, or wants to hear her beat her chest...