Word: task
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gentlemanlike treatment cannot be settled by any amount of writing. They understand, also, only too well the reception which our Nines and Teams generally receive at New Haven. Yale undergraduates seem to lack the faintest idea of what hospitality is, and we have no desire to undertake the hopeless task of teaching them...
...which are before us, and induced the author to adopt a course similar to one of these, the world would have been no great loser. We understand fully that to paint life here in such a way that everybody will be satisfied with the picture is an exceedingly difficult task. Four years is our generation, and no two generations are alike. Haunts, habits, and customs change with more rapidity than is generally recognized. The one thing that remains fixed is the tone of the place; and this indefinite atmosphere, which certainly exerts an influence on succeeding classes, can be explained...
...morrow will the task be done...
...Marathon" off Boston Light, just from Europe, or scudding (with the lee scuppers under water and every inch of canvas set) under the brow of formidable forts, past the Halcyon, the Romance, or the Brenda, form an agreeable diversion to the ordinary routine of strict application to a stated task...
WRITING for the College papers is often a difficult task, as subjects of general interest are not always to be found. This difficulty is usually surmounted by the discovery of some cause for complaint, or else by the suggestion of some great project which is recommended to the reader as most worthy to be carried...