Word: task
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hudson, Rust, Brewster, Haskell, Jones, Dunham, Loring (2), Leland, Seeley, Spencer, Young, Morton ('91), Hall ('92), Stetson, Morton ('90), White, Allen, Hale, Blaney, Whittemore, Pinkham, Dodge, Horn and Tudor. The majority of these men have never handled a lacrosse stick before, so that it is an almost impossible task to say whether the prospects of the team are good or bad. With the completion of the new athletic grounds back of Divinity, the lacrosse team will no longer be hampered by utterly inadequate practice-grounds, as the management expects to get free use of Jarvis Field during the spring time...
...libraries, established for the benefit and convenience of students taking special courses in college, which are in general use. The duty of cataloguing the new books, and of adding a host of old ones to the authors' lists, is indeed an arduous one, and Mr. Winsor has accomplished a task which will doubtless bring him well-deserved thanks. But still the library, perfect as it now is sorely in need of one thing which will render it of more importance than ever electric lights. These we hope to see put in shortly, and we have good ground for believing that...
...interest has been awakened in lacrosse by the winning of the championship last spring and by the exciting and closely contested class series in the fall. Of course every effort possible will be made to retain the championship in this branch of athletics, though it will be a difficult task to win from such teams as our rivals are preparing to put in the field next spring...
Professor W. H. Pickering has been assigned the task of finding a suitable site for the forty-inch equatorial telescope which the University of Southern California will put up as soon as it can be completed...
...matter. Such a condition of affairs should cease. All expect to be photographed ultimately, but from a natural sluggishness of disposition, many postpone this, as other things, until the last moment. The force of public opinion ought to be sufficient this year to prevent all delay, thereby lightening the task of the committee. Thanks are due those who have already, by their example, done much towards breaking up this system of procrastination which seems inherent in the composition of seniors...