Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hope that the notices from the committee on the Harvard Night will be carefully read. The task of the committee is an onerous one under the most favorable circumstances, and any heedlessness on the part of applicants will make the work doubly hard...
...difficult problem is the acting and the delivery of the lines. A little more than half the play is written in verse, and this is difficult enough for a modern to deliver if he keeps strictly to the metre and the rhythm. But when the music comes in, the task becomes harder still. Music to accompany all the parts other than the senarii has been composed for the occasion by Professor F. D. Allen, and these accompaniments follow the rhythm of the Latin verses and are in the main confined to two clarinets. If the ancient usage was followed exactly...
...programmes, etc., that it would be practical to put into effect in the present condition of educational methods. It was not intended that this report should be put into effect, but that it should serve as a valuable suggestion to all whose business it is to educate youth. This task was even more difficult than that of the conferences. First, the committee made out a tabular view, including all the requirements in the different subjects. This served as a basis from which to get at the relative amounts of time that should be spent on different subjects in a practical...
...Edmund J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, Hon. Carl Schurz, and Gen. Francis A. Walker, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consulted for about five minutes and then Professor James announced the decision. He said that the excellence of the speaking on both sides had rendered the task of the judges a peculiarly difficult one, but that they had finally agreed that if a marking were to be made on a scale of 100, Yale deserved 99 and Harvard...
...much to the team as to those who cheer. The thrill which follows the cheering gives an impetus to each man's determination which is sure to last him till the game ends. Through all the restlessness of this morning, we should keep our minds resolutely to one task at least, namely, that of giving ourselves heart and soul to the support of the team. In the cars, on the street, here in Cambridge if any one stays, this one aim should be absolutely absorbing. Whether the team wins or not-and we firmly believe that it will-the spirit...