Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different fields of concentration. Actually, if our mentors would but understand us, there is going on in the "divided psyches" of these young men, thinking which is far afield from these supposed endeavors. Your Senior, if at all given to thinking, is already chafing under the hard task-master, the May examinations. He remembers that some of Harvard's finest "illustri"--Emerson, for example, and Thoreau keeping himself in the pink of condition waiting for something to turn up and Henry Adams with his cloquent disenchantment in his "Education", and Roosevelt, and John Reed, and Walter Lippman and a host...
...Crimson substitute, followed yesterday evening. Whether or not Dixon will enter the individual tournament is not yet a certainty, but as the luck of the draw sends him against Armus Martin of Hamilton, Ontario, a player of no great distinction, it is probable that he will essay the heavy task of playing for both titles...
...Edison, Roosevelt, Bismarck, and Cavour. While at the Yale Divinity School he prepared a thesis of 75,000 words to obtain his Ph.D. His professor, Dr. George Herbert Palmer of Harvard, then teaching at Yale, remarked that he didn't see how any man could have completed such a task...
...with tutors. Compared with other colleges that are doing something of a similar nature this number seems colossal, and the expense is large, but it is well worth all it costs. For the group of men who have built up the system it has been a long and arduous task, but it is now firmly established, and with sundry variations will be widely followed else where...
...evils. Twelve "good men and true" are to be the arbiters of New York's theatrical morals. What their special qualifications will be is left unsaid. They are probably the same as those which so eminently fit the average New York court jury for its legal task...