Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This issue of the Lampoon is in its essentials a "special report" of the Business School as a part of the University. A group of undergraduates, not seeking academic distinction but not on that account less zealous for the good name of Harvard, set themselves the strictly academic task of reporting to the world at large on a part of the University which has sought to attract the attention of the public...
Professor Sushkin made light of the difficulties entailed in bringing the specimens to the United States. "That," said Professor Sushkin, "was not difficult at all. But to get them safely away from the Alti mountains, that was the task. There were no roads, only narrow trails, surrounded by swamps which extended up to the snowline. It was very difficult to collect and transport those specimens. Many of them were formerly entirely unknown to the world, and I have added to museums here and in England some of these specimens we obtained in the Alti mountains...
...been for eight years, an enthusiastic follower of Nicholas Longworth and the other Republican leaders. He was considered as a nominee for Vice President at the Cleveland Convention but complications in Indiana politics-where Senator James Watson was ambitious-overturned his chances. Now he goes forth upon another task...
...idea which has fructified in the Dawes scheme. That scheme has thus been sure from the start of the good wishes of the American people. But it is now the adopted instrument of the American Government. The U.S. is at this moment definitely and officially associated with the task of applying it. She has what she has not had before, a Governmental stake in its success...
Concluded he: "I reply emphatically that I am ready for any task, in any post or outside any post and under any control imposed by my party. It is useless to emphasize, that after recent discussions, our cause necessitates that I should be relieved of my post of President of the Revolutionary War Council...