Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...teams for three years of an unusually competent coach, but will serve to make the coaching system more permanent. It is also very fortunate that Coach Haughton is to take charge of the squad immediately, for the working out and early application of the new rules are a task that will require some experimenting and no little skill. We have no doubt that he will solve this difficulty, however, and with the material at hand for next season and the valuable aid of Captain Withington, Coach Haughton should have all the success that we wish...
...appeared the statement that "the committee feels that in awarding high rank or distinction, emphasis should be laid more largely than it is today on ability to deal with facts and principles, as compared with information acquired and memory." This is very welcome announcement, for the useless and irksome task of temporarily assimilating a quantity of trivial details in order to obtain a high mark, has proved a most effectual deterrent to students who otherwise would have aspired to honors. An A obtained by such work is considered of little value by the majority of students, for, as President Lowell...
Upon graduating, he entered the Scientific School, and also taught in his father's school for girls, which was opened in the autumn of '55. This task of a handsome young fellow instructing a lot of girls who were just beginning to live was embarrassing no doubt, but he got through that trial well. After graduating from the Scientific School, he entered the coast survey, and presently turned up in California, where he lived for some time. He had originally meant to be a civil engineer and to go onto some of the railroads, thinking the west a great field...
This case could be easily remedied if the captain of each class crew saw to it that at least one crew represented his class on the river every day, and this would not be a difficult task, in view of the number of men waiting for a chance...
...fortunate critic who has so pleasant a task as the reviewer of the March Illustrated. The articles are varied, the subjects are well chosen, the writers are interesting, and the food for thought abundant and substantial...