Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action is taken to arrange more games, there is lite like lihood of the class base-ball championship being settled at all this year. The management of the class-games has been extremely bad, and affairs have now fallen into such a rut that it will be a difficult task to straighten them out again. Games which should have been played or forfeited were postponed with impunity either by the consent of both of the captains or on account of petty wrangles about the umpire. The captains of class teams who were appointed to umpire did not show any zeal...
...were to take the initiative, we are certain that they will find many men ready to aid them in the undertaking. We are informed officially that such a body of men would have full powers of officers of the officers of the law, but in the college grounds. The task will demand some self-sacrifice. But we do not doubt that there are enough men in college who will gladly make the sacrifice necessary. We hope the crew men will take the matter in hand at once that we may be delivered from the nuisance complained of as speedily...
...that the average Harvard man is a self-contained and well-behaved individual; and, let me add, in case this should catch the eye of one of your exchanges, that the actions of these particular sophomores are a marked exception. What right have I to take my neighbors to task, to set myself up as a censor of public conduct? I am simply assuming the right of a Harvard man to express himself freely upon a matter which concerns the good name of his alma mater...
...publish to-day a communication from an officer of the Athletic Association, which takes us to task for the editorial that appeared in our columns yesterday, criticising the lack of energy shown by men in track athletics. The writer is apparently laboring under the impression that the criticism was directed against the officers of the H. A. A. If he had read the editorial more carefully, he would see that this was not the case; but on the contrary, that it was directed against men in college who have ability they will not develop. If the editorial in question...
...they advancing the cause of the ideal? In London they do mere dilettante work; they are wedded to sonnets, triolets and rondeaus. They spend their time in a mere elaboration of saying nothing, instead of appealing to the people. William Morris has recently entered upon the true task of the poet. He sees that as life is not ideal there is all the more need and opening for poetry. Walt Whitman has also tried to face this nineteenth century world boldly; and, whatever we may think of his literary style, his spirit is genuine. It is said that the modern...