Word: task
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...called progressive country like ours, where invention after invention is developed from the ingenious Yankee mind with startling rapidity, and where institutions of learning are scattered as rapidly as the products of the Patent Office, it is no easy task to keep posted on the latest improvements, and ignorance of the progress of education may sometimes be pardoned. Still, we felt we were behind the times when we were obliged, after reading on a catalogue the name of Drury College, to confess that we had never heard of it before. A perusal of the catalogue has given us some idea...
...some new task, each moment sweeps away...
...have the questions inscribed on the blackboard, as is done for boys at schools. Now the eyes of many of us are not in the best condition in the season of the Semiannuals, and deciphering hieroglyphics at a time when every moment was precious proved a painful and irritating task. The Faculty have succeeded this year in crowding seventy-two examinations into eighteen days, and can congratulate themselves that they have thus made the work harder than ever before. They should therefore more than ever take pains to be considerate in such minor matters...
...were looked out for or not, they are certainly now in a disgraceful condition. On Monday the slush could have been easily removed, and the fact that it was left to freeze takes away from the force of the argument that to chop so much ice would be a task of great difficulty. Our tiles, secured after so much exertion, might have been left in the beds where Nature put them, if they have been brought here merely to be imbedded again by the action of the elements. Municipal laws allow a person twenty-four hours in which to have...
...enumerate all the characters that adorn our recitation-rooms would be a task of enormous length. To do justice to them all, I should have to publish several octavo volumes...