Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...coming year the members of the team have put Harvard's football interests into the hands of a man whose experience on the eleven and personal qualities eminently fit him for the position. The University has every confidence in his ability and will support him heartily in the task which has been entrusted...
...fight the battle out beforehand and give the victory to one team or the other. But every true Harvard man will cast such considerations aside today. The past will play no part in the game with Pennsylvania. The team will go on to the field with a definite task,- to win, and that not because other games during the season have resulted in this way or that, but becase they feel that they can and will play a better, pluckier game today. In this they have got to be backed up by every Harvard man at the field...
...contains some of his most brilliant work. The difficulties, not alone of generalization and classification, but also of selection and proportionment, are infinitely greater in the case of writers of our own century than in that of earlier writers; yet Mr. Saintsbury has emerged very successfully from his difficult task, and has produced a work well fitted to up-hold its author's rank among the greatest of living critics...
...trust which demands his strongest and unremitting efforts, he devotes himself to his duty in a spirit which wins the admiration both of fellow members of the team and of the whole University. In the course of time he finds that his thought is so concentrated on the task which he has undertaken that he is unable to put his mind on anything else. Apparently with a full knowledge of possible consequences he chooses deliberately to continue in the same course and, as now appears, subjects himself to the college discipline...
...with student organizations, except in one instance, and that is when an organization, as such, does distinct injury to the University. In that case, its existence would rightly be prohibited. But if any individual student fails to meet the requirements of his college work he should be brought to task individually, whether his failure is caused by the excessive demands of a club or by his own neglect. This in general seems to be the policy of the University, but we bring the matter up now because we believe that the recent vote of the Faculty directed against the Glee...