Word: task
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor N. S. Shaler expresses great satisfaction at Professor Sargent's plan and is in favor of placing the national forests under the supervision of army officers. He doubts, however, the practicability of giving the proposed instruction at West Point. The task can be more effectively accomplished after the men leave the Academy, in a school specially adapted to the purpose. But the plan as a whole he commends, principally because "it provides for employment in time of peace of a considerable force which, in case of public need, could be at once turned to the uses...
...answered. Judge Holmes and the publishers of his distinguished father's works have requested the accomplished biographer, Mr. John T. Morse, Jr., author of four volumes of the "American Statesman" series to prepare the memoir of Dr. Holmes, and Mr. Morse has consented to undertake this important literary task. The book will include a large number of Dr. Holmes's letters which have great interest and the rare personal charm which entered into his autobiographical work. The preparation of the book will in the nature of things take considerable time. But when it does appear, coming from Mr. Morse...
...committee similar to the one suggested in this vote has existed in Boston, having only a veto power except in such instances as they may be asked by the city or by private bodies, to undertake voluntarily the task of deciding on the merits of certain locations or designs...
...there can be little doubt that its recommendations would have such authority as to be almost always accepted. Whatever general scheme for the future development of the college property might be adopted, it would be carried out in detail by the committee, - a body far better fitted for the task than any which now exists in Harvard...
...always be open the possibility of participation in the Harvard - Yale debates, which for the past few years have attracted the attention of the college world. So far Harvard has been invariably successful in these debates. The formation of a freshman society should be an aid to those whose task is to keep the record clean...