Word: undertook
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...that none of the proposed shareholders can be familiar with the details of the Society's business; and we add that none of them could afford the time to make themselves familiar with those details. The present Board already has broken with the recent practice under which the Directors undertook to determine within fifty cents a week the salaries to be paid to individual clerks, to say how many clerks were to be employed, and whether those clerks should be boys, women, or men. The Board proposes to deal with questions of policy, and to leave matters of administrative detail...
...held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Appleton Chapel. Professor Francis G. Peabody read a passage from the Bible, and then spoke briefly about the life and work of the deceased. Professor Thayer, he said, was one of the few true scholars of the day. Whatever task he undertook was always thoroughly performed, and never had to be done over. His life was so manly, strenuous and truthful that he won the respect and love of all who came in contact with him. Professor Thayer's life work was the interpretation and criticism of the New Testament, a work...
...Charles Peabady, Ph.D. '93, of the Archaeological Department of Andover, undertook during May and June some excavations for the Peabody Museum in the region of the Mississippi Delta. He was assisted by W. C. Farabee 3G. From the two mounds which he examined he collected ten boxes of specimens--skeletons, points of arrows, lances and javelins, and a few pots and stone implements...
...validity of non-Episcopal orders does not involve an attack against episcopal tenets; it involves a refutation only of the theories of the "high churchmen," whose claims have been combated quite as sturdily by Episcopalians as by members of dissenting sects. With this statement as his introduction, Dr. McGiffert undertook to establish the orthodoxy of the Odissenting sects by historical consideration of the doctrines and organization of the early church...
...literary production of the time, King Alfred began two distinct tasks. He wished first, to restore the lost learning; and secondly, to put the great books of the world into the mother tongue of his people. The actual work of the first he left for scholars, the second he undertook himself. And by its accomplishment, he became the first translator and leader in our ancient literature and offered a primary education to his people, which has not been made effective until the present...