Word: task
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...counted upon entirely for covering expenses. Ninety-six men will surely realize that any delay on their part in fulfilling to the uttermost the conditions which have been made with Yale, is not to be tolerated. We believe that the junior managers will find their task an easy...
...part of the dissertation treated in an exhaustive manner of the boyhood and development of the Emperor Julian, his relation toward Christianity and to Paganism, and his contact with Neo-Platonism. The second part deals with the great Pagan reaction of the fourth century, with the immensity of the task to which Julian's religious beliefs had brought him, and with his ultimate failure...
...excellent; especially funny is a game of "football of the future," played in evening dress, and with the politeness of a Sir Charles Grandison. And if the text is good, the music is fully worthy of it. The composer for such a troupe has a hard task before him; he is handicapped on every hand. Few of the actors are really singers, and some of the principal ones have a compass of not exceeding five or six notes; then it stands to reason that all the music to be sung must necessarily be in the very simplest and most perspicuous...
Dante believed firmly that the setting forth of the lessons of wisdom was his divinely appointed task, and that in his work he was guided and strengthened by God himself. He intended to lead men to a happier, better condition on earth, by showing them the misery that they made for themselves by sin, and by pointing out the way by which they must ascend to blessedness. In few other works of men do we find such uninterrupted consistency of purpose as in the Divine Comedy. From the beginning to the end of the poem the aim of Dante...
...deepened, and our life for the short time we are here be made more full of association and sentiment. Can we not turn the present enthusiasm for lectures and lecturers to account? We do not need to go outside of Cambridge for the very men most suited for this task. What more pleasing and fruitful subject could a speaker choose than "Harvard in the Past"? If the History Department of the University or some college organization could arrange such a series of lectures they would incur, I believe, the lasting gratitude of the students, of the graduates...