Word: task
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...concluding lectures of this course have as their task to state the lecturer's personal views concerning the problems of Philosophy. Yet such personal views are worthless unless they keep close to history. The doctrine here to be expounded must be the summing up of the lesson of the foregoing history; and must, therefore, be essentially unoriginal...
Harvard has beaten Yale at football. This is all that it is necessary to say. We cannot express all that it means to Harvard, and do not feel called upon to undertake the task; every one knows how years of work and years of study have been required to put such a team in the field as that which has just defeated an eleven that Yale was proud to call the best New Haven had ever seen...
...long, hard and often a discouraging lesson, this learning of the game of football. Three times of late years we have thought that we had it mastered, and each time Yale has sent us back to Cambridge to study it some more. But we have stuck to the task with a dogged perseverance, and the 15,000 people who saw Harvard defeat Yale at Hampden Park Saturday, must admit that we have now learned the game thoroughly. Harvard met the strongest team Yale ever put in the field, and fairly outplayed it. It was a hard fought game from beginning...
...wish to call the attention of members of the senior class to the very important notice on the front page of this issue. The matter of sitting for class photographs is one that in former years has been shamefully neglected. Such a task is indeed small and occupies only a few minutes of a man's valuable time, yet it requires the greatest efforts of the committee in charge to make men sit. We urge the members of the present senior class to attend to the matter at once and show themselves an exception to former classes which have regarded...
...should expect to find in their own lives and those of their fellows. The gloomy pessimist and the careless, selfish man who turns his back on suffering are the evil extremes. We should be happy, as it is what Christ wishes us to be, but never shirk an unpleasant task or be callous to the cries of suffering. As a man hopes for happiness in a future life let him hold to the golden mean between such extremes as these...