Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyes shone like blue beads in his parchment face. Up came Mr. Baker, swacked off his ball three yards further. The two began their match. It was Mr. Rockefeller's first game of the season.* His opponent, he knew, was a dangerous player. He manned himself for his task, halved the first hole, won the next. So the match seesawed. Mr. Baker hit the hardest; sometimes, indeed, the natural recoil of his flourish forced him to stagger back a step or two. Mr. Rockefeller was warier; he never waggled, but bent for a moment over his club...
...skaters may well expect stiff opposition and a difficult task in continuing their string of victories, as the visiting team is one of the best Freshman sextets that the New Hampshire institution has had in recent years. It brings with it an impressive record, having defeated the Tilton School team 15 to 0, and Stoneham High School 4 to 2. The sensational playing of Captain Lane, Gardner, and Foster has been a feature of the Dartmouth victories. These men will require close watching on the part of the Freshmen stickmen...
...what many people seem to miss is the fact that the "distribution curve" system of marking, when properly applied, is a bet on the consistency of performance of a large group, the class, as against the consistency of performance of one man, the instructor. And that man's task is proverbially difficult, though it ranges in degree from a course in elementary mathematics to are advanced course in English composition (with CRIMSON editorials at some undetermined point in between...
...honorary, bestowed in recognition of achievement. Without the opportunities of college training, they rose to heights the average college graduate never ascends. The simple truth is that college cannot give a man genius, seriousness of mind and determination of purpose. A man must bring these to his task. Perhaps the greatest service a college can do is to awaken the man whose attitude is: "Here I am Educate...
...opportunity which is not only unusual in itself, but unique in its appeal to varying types of college men. In the first place there is the student who found difficulty in orientating himself in his Freshman year. He "went out for something," found himself ill-suited to the task, dropped from the competition, and as a result finds himself out of touch with college life. Then there is the man who feels the old, old urge of writing, and needs the stimulus of a competition to keep the flame burning steadily. And finally there is the undergraduate who is eager...