Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...assist Haughton in the task of whipping the squad into shape, Henry, a former Brown captain, coached the line. A cheering section has been organized at Camp Devens to encourage the team Saturday...
...Ayer, P. D. Haughton '99, has taken charge of the squad. With only a week to form his team and equip them with suitable defensive and offensive formations, Coach Haughton has a formidable task. As all of the men have been play- ing football on the regimental and brigade teams since the beginning of the season, however, he can omit much of the fundamental and early season work. Some of the squad were members of the Depot Brigade team which held the informals to a scoreless tie last Saturday...
...What these men think of Harvard, and what impressions of this college they give to their peoples depends much on how they are received here. If the welcome is hearty and they are convinced that we want them, our reputation will gain. The Cosmopolitan Club is assuming the pleasurable task of proving this. The function of the club is more than to receive strangers and to entertain them it is to spread abroad the fact that Harvard wishes to be cosmopolitan...
...remains a hardy growth. In bringing each of its contributions to their maturity, it has gained, for its future direction and work, a corresponding sum of experience. The element of preserved continuity proved its value again this autumn when the officers in charge of the regiment faced a fresh task, after many of their "veterans" had been called to the colors, and when hundreds of entering freshmen had come up for training. The work of organization and training advanced with despatch and efficiency, as it well could, with experience as it had at command and with such a corps...
These men have no easy task,-- eight or nine hours of training is very little in preparation for so important an event. It is like having the Yale football game in the middle of October and expecting to see a finished football machine. Secretary Baker cannot expect too much; nevertheless, the new men by a little conscientious effort can do a great deal for the fame of the Corps and thus help make the Secretary's visit worth while...