Word: tasks
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...minimum. As a result, the club ceases to be particularly active. In view of the changed conditions, therefore, its work will be confined to executive functions, to the arrangement of the trials for the intercollegiate debates, and of debates between the Class Clubs, as well as to the task of furnishing coaches and critics for the Freshman and Sophomore Clubs; general oversight, in short, of debating interests. Membership, therefore, would be largely honorary, and would probably be made up of University debaters and the presidents of the Class Clubs. The necessary running expenses could then be met by a small...
...writer, intimating that the Harvard undergraduate considers the war with Spain "unnecessary and unjust," and denouncing our law-makers as "unscrupulous," declares that it is yet necessary, under our faulty democratic government, to give the war an "unconditional moral support." How this extraordinary task is to be accomplished he explains with the utmost lucidity. The undergraduates are to contribute to the "austere and thoughtful academic influence" of the University by refusing to enlist until a call shall be received to which they can, without loss of dignity, respond. Meanwhile, the fighting shall be left to fellows whose fathers...
...wish, difficult though the task is, to try to express the gratitude which the college feels for such service as Goodrich stands for. His work has been of the sort which Harvard may well take pride in-absolute devotion to the cause, and absolute disregard for personal interests...
...Association by A. P. Gardner '86 well sets forth the aims and hopes of the Association. From a Graduate's Window, concerning Harvard Episodes, expressed the opinion that Mr. Flandrau, in searching the weaknesses of college life has succeeded perhaps better than any one else who has essayed the task, and that therefore it is all the greater pity that the faults should outweigh the real merit in the book which is capable of better things...
...difficulty of arranging races and dates among these five universities, it would be advantageous to all and beneficial to college rowing, if a rowing association representing the five should be formed. Such an association could, at least by the convenience of a conference it would afford, facilitate the task of arranging places and dates, in case two eight-oared races are rowed and also aid in broadening the scope of rowing competition by introducing, for instance, rowing in four-oars, pairs or singles...