Word: task
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Three of the other five games were lost only after hard struggles. As the record now stands Harvard must win one game from Yale to tie with Princeton for second place, two games to take second place alone, and all three to win the championship. It is a formidable task but it is a possibility. Hard, steady work with good support from the university will accomplish...
...other points he has not met his opponent squarely. Taking the ground that "strictly speaking we are all foreigners in America," he shows that we have a "huge, ignorant vote" of Europeans and Africans which must be trained to an intelligent support of our institutions. This must be the task of active, educated men, "of vigorously independent minds," for an "enlightened public opinion alone can master the great race and economic problems" before us. The writer then goes on to show the great influence of public opinion in pushing measures of reform. He claims, contrary to Mr. Darling, that...
...tour. This is an important innovation, marking the removal of one of the great obstacles which have stood in the way of Harvard's success in the past. It remains with the nine to demonstrate the folly of the objections which have been brought against playing with professionals-a task which they will without doubt easily perform...
...only recall Harvard's ill success in the past, and the hopes and efforts which should be directed towards victory in the future, if everyone does not feel as a personal responsibility the problem which it is at present the task of the University football players to solve...
Professor Francke said that the literature of a nation contains all the traits which combine to make the national life; and since it would be too great a task to attempt to grasp the relation of all these traits to literature, we should confine our attention to one or two at a time. He proposed to examine the influence which Individualism had had upon the literature of Germany...