Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfection of style demanded in English writing, and therefore require no further instruction, they have great reason to feel elated; but, if they look upon it in another and more probable light, they cannot be blamed if they decline to give their time outside of recitation hours to a task which meets with so little appreciation...
...after years. The aim of the university, therefore, should be not to give a young man an education which is impossible, but so to interest him in the great problems of existence that he will be willing to give whatever leisure he may have in after life to the task of self-education...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - It is the common experience of undergraduates in our larger colleges, and especially in Harvard, that, as soon as they find themselves outside of their college and among so-called practical men, they are taken to task by these men for the one-sided teaching of the college in the matter of Free Trade and Protection. The "business man" of to-day generally boasts that since his education comes from the world, his opinions on these subjects are far ahead of the mere theories of college professors. The opinions thus obtained, it is fair...
...matter is an old one. It has been brought to the notice of generation upon generation of Harvard seniors. In fact we keep in type a full set of notices bearing on this subject, from the mild preparatory announcements which mark the entrance of new committees upon their tiresome task, to the frantic appeals which so surely denote the close of the college year. This year we admit that we have been outwitted. None of the customary notices have met the approbation of the new committee. Something more startling was demanded, and the columns of yesterday's issue contain...
...history of California was delivered by Professor Royce of the philosophical department. It was a masterly presentation of the beginnings of the history of the gold bearing state, and the lecturer did not allow the attention of his audience to flag once. Dr. Royce is admirably fitted for the task which he has undertaken. He has spent much time in California as an instructor in the state university, and his recently published history of California in the Commonwealth series, evidence the writer's thorough mastery of the political, economic, and social status of this comparatively recently settled country. The remaining...