Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this day, when spirits are hard to get and usually cut when got, to fill a Chair of Spiritonomy would be a difficult task. But with sufficient inspiration the incumbent might well make researches of inestimable value to History. Dr. Johnson might be summoned to tell the true story of Cock Lane. With Banque, Hamlet and Poor Yorick new worlds of Shakespearean lore could be revealed, but perhaps there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. The headless Horseman and Byron's last appearance to Sir Walter Scott could be reenacted...
...Daily: "In general, we believe politics is too unremunerative as a profession to be a field for the college graduate. The general attitude is one of disinterestedness. . . ." The University of Rochester Campus: ". . . Rochester men do not agree with the Yale Daily News. . . . College men should not quit because the task appears difficult." The Penn State Collegian: ". . . Before the undergraduate gets too critical, he should attempt to clear up a bit in his own backyard. Some of the methods used to get votes by fraternity cliques in many colleges would put the average politician to shame." The Daily Princetonian: ". . . Most undergraduates...
...this task Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley in Chicago appointed as receivers: 1) Edward Nash Hurley, politico-businessman who once headed the U. S. Shipping Board and last month procured both Republican and Democratic conventions for Chicago; 2) Charles Alexander McCulloch, who recently bolstered the business of the late John R. Thompson one-arm-chair cafeterias; 3) Samuel Insull. When an. objection against Mr. Insull's appointment was made, Judge Lindley exclaimed: "This company is Samuel Insull's own child. His appointment is not improper because if he were excluded the company would miss the benefit...
...woman's lot. The thought that she will have to content herself with arranging flowers, ordering meals, with bridge and beauty-parlor and matinee, is a serious deterrent to marriage. ..." The Mirror editor inserted a reproduction of "The Gleaners," showing three peasant women at the back-breaking task of gathering the grain left by the reapers. He captioned it: "... Masterpiece by Frangois Millet, depicts the kind of work that many employers seem to think women should confine themselves to, instead of taking men's jobs...
...officials at Lehman Hall have given their consent to a revision of the rules concerning House members dining with their friends in Houses other than their own. It now is the task of the Masters to arrange the details, a problem which they failed to consider at their meeting yesterday. At present men eating outside their Houses do so at the expense of the host, who must pay fifteen cents more for his guest's meal than for his own. In addition, if the host has contracted for ten meals a week, and has eaten only eight himself, though...