Word: task
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...period just before us is the greatest period in the history of the world. The man who is to live during the next twenty-five years is to see greater achievements in thought than we have yet seen. Before this future stands the young man setting himself to the task of discerning the signs of the times...
...task of setting the tunes has been performed by the University Organist and Choirmaster Warren A. Locke '69, whose long experience in conducting the music in Appleton Chapel has eminently fitted him for the work...
...interesting fact that nine of the members of last year's eleven graduated from Yale last June, and the task of putting a champion team in the field this fall is the hardest that any captain has experienced in years...
...task of developing an entirely new team does not rest upon Captain Thorne quite so completely as might be supposed. Last year was characterized by so many accidents, that much of the time seven substitutes were obliged to be played on the eleven. For instance, in the Harvard game at Springfield last fall, Yale played 13 men, and in the Princeton game the following week 12 men. The substitutes of last fall are, for the most part, in college and will be Yale's mainstay this season...
...position of Class Secretary is very far from a sinecure. He who holds it pays high for the honor by the work which is demanded of him. It is apparently the intention of Ninety-five to make the task of their Secretary particularly hard. Each year printed forms are sent to the members of the class to be filled out with personal information for the class history. In spite of the long time which has passed since these forms were distributed by the present Secretary, but few of them have yet been returned to him. This...