Word: task
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...absence. It is only likely that it was the cause. There has been much talk about Harvard's good prospects this year, but if this kind of business continues athletics will do their best to find a lower level than the one they now occupy. No doubt such a task would be difficult but it is within the range of possibility. Many may say that the non-athletic men don't know about such things and had better use their power of speech on a subject with which they are more conversant. This is, we are convinced, a wrong view...
...prospect of having him act as dean a very agreeable one. We trust that Professor Smith will enjoy the vacation which he so well merits, after filling such a burdensome office for so long a time uninterruptedly, and that he will come back to us refreshed for his task...
...disagreeable task to have to-remind men that they have failed to pay subscriptions to the 'Varsity crew. We are convinced that the appeal we print in another column from the treasurer of the boat club will make everybody pay his dues to the crew, and needs no further comment from...
...would suggest that a number of students be made a committee to escort the visiting nine back to their coach and show them the ordinary courtesy one from hosts to guests. The men who usher at the games might most conveniently be entrusted with the performance of this task...
...stronger. They are both treated in a rather cursory way and the ideas embodied in both essays would not suffer from greater elaboration. The best bit of writing in this issue is undoubtedly a sketch, "Mr. Blanc," which shows maturity of thought and excellent mastery of language. The task of describing a character is accomplished without the usual effect of wearying the reader. The idea of the whole sketch resembles in a way Hawthorne's "Christmas Banquet." Two stanzas on "A Dead Girl" are full of charm; the idea of death being "beguiled" by her smile is such...