Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...very little after the start and kept driving his crew until it had bumped Thayer shortly before the first bend. Both crews then dropped out of the race. Oxford street, which started in last position, was out of the race almost immediately, but all the men stuck at their task with spirit until the finish line was crossed. Weld was able to stay right behind Claverly until within 300 yards of the finish line, then Martin, who was stroking Claverly, spurted and drove his crew rapidly away...
...Graduates' Magazine well performs the usual task of bringing us up to date on matters of the last few months. The leading article of the September number is an abstract of Governor Hughes's address on "Some Aspects of Our Democracy" delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa last June. One may regret that we are given only an abstract and not the complete address. Governor Hughes's stay in Cambridge was marked by very high demonstrations of esteem and enthusiasm for him on the part of both graduates and undergraduates; the exponent of the firm but quiet life must have...
...teams will have left men potentially capable of winning 31 1-2 points. Yale, however, has a victorious freshman team from which to draw. For the intercollegiate meet the outlook is less favorable, as 9 1-2 points of 13 1-2 will be lost. Confronted with the difficult task of developing a winning team, Captain Foster has the confidence of the undergraduates in his ability to do so in so far as it lies in a captain's power...
...Karl Brill's football success. Most of what Mr. Brill is quoted as saying about over-eating is lamentably true, but it should be remembered that one of the Dean's hardest problems every year is to get certain thin-chested, self-supporting Freshmen to eat enough, a task which this article may make all the harder. There are also two pleasantly written descriptions of the new subway and of the new Bussey Institution, which will interest those who happen not to have heard the facts before. And finally, there are a humorous defense of the chess club...
...Regulation of Corporations," yesterday, Mr. Henry L. Stimson spoke first on the drastic Sherman act of 1890, which by its broad scope and sweeping and inaccurate language attacked not the corporate evil alone, but the inevitable economic growth upon which it rested. To the Supreme Court was left the task of interpreting the law, and the Court, realizing the power which was placed in its hands, went slowly. So it was not until the famous "Northern Securities" case was decided that it was clearly seen how tremendous was the power conveyed by the indefinite terms of the act, for exterminating...