Word: task
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gray was not a graduate of Harvard, his connection with the college has been so intimate, and his devotion to her so strong that he might fairly be called a Harvard man. He came here in 1842 when he was made Professor of Natural History. When he began his task he found the botanical collection hardly more than a small botanical garden. The work that he must have spent in building up his herbarium is shown by the fact that when, in 1864, he presented this great treasure of his to the college, it contained 200,000 specimens...
...next half-year the new board will make every effort to improve the paper. We are very much in earnest in the task which we have before us. It seems clearly defined; it is to give college, and especially Harvard, news quickly and accurately; it is to make our editorial opinion felt throughout the University. To the furtherance of these ends we shall give our heartiest efforts, and we ask, in this, our work, the continued co-operation of the students and instructors...
...been published. The book is written by Greenough White, A. M., Harvard '84, and shows a wonderful familiarity with American authors. It points out the connection between our country's literature and history, and shows how new forms in letter and art have arisen as advancing thought required,-a task not attempted hitherto. It is an excellent key to the whole subject of American literature, and has been favorably criticised by certain members of our English department...
...present world also believes in a mechanical order of nature, but has superposed upon this mechanical view an historical, and consequently an essentially idealistic and teleological interpretation of nature's mechanism. To bring this fact to consciousness, to define and to defend this historical interpretation, is the whole task that properly falls to the lot of a "Philosophy of Evolution." As for the particular truths about the actual process of evolution, it is the business of empirical study to find them out. That there is genuine, and not merely apparent history in the world, philosophy must undertake to show...
...that aspect of truth upon which empitical science generally ways stres; and to which attention will be devoted in the next two lectures, idealism as thus stated must appear abstract and even fantastic. But distiuction of one aspect of the truth from another will aid unimately in the task of harmonizing these aspecis themselves...