Word: job
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that position meant to other classes. The position resulting from the second assistant managership is that of football manager, one of the biggest and most responsible that can be filled by an undergraduate. The Class of 1922 must realize their responsibility. What man in that class will get the job...
Such service for limited periods during Loan -time, such as afternoons or evenings two or three times a week ought to provide an interesting change of occupation for such members of the University as are qualified by their experiences for the job. Besides providing excellent practice in public speaking it would also be a very real contribution to the success of the Victory Loan...
...make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard as a burden to get rid of, but in which he would discern an opportunity for important service,-and the book or article would be set aside, and the job that was immediately necessary performed in its stead. Harvard was invariably the gainer by his self-sacrifice. No university can go on without the sort of devotion that he gave. It is only too rarely that such devotedness can be found...
...parallel to this can be found by taking the case of a man in business. He enlists or is drafted into the service. When he returns, his old position is waiting for him. That is the job he knows. He isn't suddenly pushed ahead without further experience. What a business concern does, the University is doing. She is welcoming back her sons in their old positions, not shoving them forward to ones which would be unfair both to them and herself...
...wheeled, directing the batteries on our poor tired devils, dropping bombs and spitting machine gun bullets. Then, about 4 in the afternoon we ran into a machine gun nest which wouldn't give in. One company tried to smash it, failed and fell back. We took up the job. We reduced its fire and charged and were thrown back, and then, while trying to reform the line, some great ton of steel lit on my head and down I went. I thought it was a 77 which had gone on through, and I waited for it to explode. As nothing...