Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...death of a man who has lived a long and complete life, fulfilling with honor the task he was set to do, has in it something of climax which robs the inevitable end of much of its sorrow. Yet even such consolation may avail little in considering the death of Joseph H. Choate...
...sadly true, however, that Harvard University and the cosmic order are not partial to lawless individuals, human or astral. The long established order of things requires that a man be at one task until he assume another. There is no Nirvanic peace between our cycles of toil. Until a Plattsburg applicant has been definitely accepted at that camp, he is both actually and morally bound to the training corps here...
...removed from the struggle--it typifies the universality of the conflict. The streets are thronged with soldiers of most of the warring nations and their dependencies; French, French colonials from the Soudan, Algiers and Indo-China, British, Australian, New Zealand, Hindu, Serbian, Russian--all united in the same titanic task...
...instill in them the principles of obedience and discipline and the rudiments of modern military science. But the regular army man, no matter how limited his practice may have been in that kind of work, is in the way to master it quickly. With the reserve officers the task will be harder, but they will all have had some sort of training before they begin to train others. There will be no question of getting the number of men required. Every intelligent citizen knows that universal obligation to military service has always been the rule in this country...
...first test of the fighting ability of Harvard men in the R. O. T. C. will take place during the next two weeks. The power to concentrate, the power to stick to an irksome task, the power to do one's duty when anything else would be pleasanter, all these will be thoroughly tested before one shot has been fired. The man who works successfully and passes his final examinations with high grades will have proved his capability of becoming a valuable officer. The first hours of tedious study to fit ourselves to be officers are at hand. The first...