Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Salvation Army are most efficient.- (a) Their "soldiers" are the best possible for such work.- (1) They best know the conditions of life among which they work.- (x) They are themselves redeemed souls.- (2) They best can sympathize with the sufferers.- (3) Their entire lives are devoted to their task.- (4) Their enthusiasm is genuine and voluntary.- (x) No one is compelled to join the army.- (y) Any soldier can withdraw at any time.- (5) Obedience is absolute and willing: Booth, pp. 242, 243.- (b) Methods are most direct.- (1) Soldiers come into closest and most intimate contact with those...
...task of collecting money for a crew is never an easy one, no matter eon excellent the crew may be. Next to the 'Varsity the Freshman crew has to spend the most, and unfortunately it is not uncommon for this crew to end the season considerably in debt. The Freshman Crew this year gives better promise of success than any Harvard has had for years, and it will be a pity if its chances are in any way lessened by lack of funds. The collectors have been busily at work for some time and have already succeeded in raising...
...well managed and has always been free from debt, as the others might be if they were equally well handled. Finally, it would seriously embarrass the 'Varsity to make these expenditures and not have them refunded. We must raise nearly $5000 by subscriptions this year, and with such a task certainly cannot afford to pay out for the class crews nearly...
...them. He has talked of books as if he loved them, and not as if they were lessons that it was necessary for the student to learn if he would be an educated man. He has led men to read the best things in literature, not as a task, but as a pleasure. He has told them what to read as well as how they should read it. His evening talks have been very popular and have attracted large audiences for he has always treated his subject in in a bright, entertaining way that has never failed to please...
...faithful friend returns from the Holyland in disguise. As the two tramps, Tatters and Robbie, they impose upon the credulous Bishop by a pretense of magic knowledge, and discover his hate for the King. They so far win his confidence that he entrusts to the disguised King the task of persuading the unwilling Mirabelle to marry Dan de Lion. To this end the King is again disguised, this time as the Bishop; and he and Robbie at once clap the real Bishop into a safe for safe keeping...