Word: task
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...literature relating to the thirteenth century in Italy is of enormous extent, and to master it is a study for years. Even to make a satisfactory list for a student of the works best worth his reading would be a long and difficult task...
...bleak, cold humor, which never fails to amuse an audience. Hamlet himself is thoughtful and philosophic. With his friends he is pathetic, with his enemies bitterly humorous, and eloquent. He is an idealist in the strict sense of the word, a dilitante, and utterly unfit for the terrible task imposed upon...
Professor Norton announced yesterday that the task of deciding which of the photographs in the Camera Club exhibition deserved the prize for artistic merit, was an impossible one. To select the best ten or twelve would, he thought, be practicable...
...intercollegiate contests and no one can doubt that with the end of them would come the end of their abuses. Intercollegiate athletics have, however, far too much in their favor to be thus summarily abolished. That the Faculty and the Nation feel themselves unequal, as they must, to the task of reforming athletics, is no reason why they should refuse a hearing to those who are more willing and able to undertake...
...Harvard in the coming debate with Princeton. They have been chosen to a position of much honor, but of honor tempered with a heavy responsibility. It is for them to maintain unbroken Harvard's list of victories in debate, and they are not likely to find this an easy task. At Yale, interest in debating has only of late years seen a revival; but at Princeton this is not the case. Ever since the debating league between Harvard and Yale was started. Princeton has been eager to become a member of it. Her two debating societies have been constantly active...