Word: task
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...clock Harvard and Yale will play their annual game of foot ball on Hampden Park, Springfield. The men here at college who have followed Harvard's play throughout the season know well its strength and weaknesses. At the beginning of the year Harvard had before her the task of developing three centre men and all the left side of the line and of finding a quarter-back. Yale had at the left side of her line and the centre, - except the one position of snap-back - veteran men. She had to find-a full-back. In other words, Harvard...
...them. There is little doubt but that the railroad can be induced to issue a round trip ticket, to be good perhaps from Friday until Tuesday, at much less than the regular fares. All that is needed is for someone to lay the matter before the railroad - a task that in consideration of the number to be benefited, the foot ball management might well take upon itself...
...choose articles of special value to Harvard men. Of particular interest to the majority of college students will be Edmund Gosse's critical essay on Rudyard Kipling, which is in the nature of a review of his literary work in prose and verse. Mr. Gosse has done his task in a careful, judicial spirit, and the result is an admirable estimate of an author with whom almost every one has become familiar in the past two years. A portrait of Mr. Kipling is the frontispiece of the number...
...This year the same plan has been followed out; and it is plain to see that the great care has been to perfect the new arrangements which during the past year have been successfully begun. In arranging the scheme for this year the faculty have had an unusually hard task; inasmuch as they have been compelled to put in two entirely new groups of studies, and still to keep all the courses properly related to each other...
...last two days the order in the boat has been as follows: Stroke, Bond; 7, Waters; 6, Shea; 5, Glidden; 4, Fay; 3, Blake; 2, Johnson; bow, Thompson. Although the crew made a good showing in the class race, it must realize that there is quite a different task in store for it if it intends to win from Yale and Columbia at New London. The men are not earnest enough. They do not put every effort into the work nor get half the good of their coaching by keeping their minds alert and attentive. It is time...