Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After his arrival at the Embassy, Ambassador Krassin issued a statement wherein he stated his pleasure at being in Paris. His first task would be, he said, "to establish normal relations," to solve "all questions of mutual interest." A loan would be asked for later, he inferred...
...that nameless artist who exhibited a blank canvas, declaring that it showed the Israelites Crossing the Red Sea- the Sea pushed back, the Israelites just passed over, the Egyptians not yet come up-Mr. Pann of Jerusalem paints the pictures that his heart perceives. He has set himself the task of illustrating the Bible. Already he has finished 125 pictures, covering Genesis and the beginning of Exodus. Said he: "I have always felt it a reproach that almost every nation has produced its painter of the Bible except the one whose genius created that wonderful Book...
...have recently appointed 15 commodity committees to which have been assigned the task of getting together the total requirements of all supply branches for certain assigned commodities. Having ascertained the total requirements, the committee submits them to a designated supply branch. It is the duty of this branch to maintain contact with the industry and to make a plan for procuring the commodity in time of emergency. This plan is then cleared by the commodity committee and, when satisfactory, becomes the procurement plan for the War Department for the commodity...
...entrance examinations as an oppressive spectre, keeping the secondary school boy away from all knowledge, is absurb. If anything, the private school man inclines too much to underrate them. It is true that because of the general "speeding-up" of colleges, private schools have had to shift from the task of educating to that of preparing. Whether the private schools can educate and at the same time prepare for college, and whether colleges really educate, are questions on which one man's opinions are just as good as another's. Mark Hopkins, sitting on one end of a log with...
...false values which are leading to pedantry in the one type and athleticism in the other. In Germany the character building which results from participation in college journalism, dramatics, and athletics must be recognized as of some importance. In the United States there is the far more difficult task of convincing the public in general and the students in particular that scholastic achievement is deserving of the highest honor. And this case is the more serious because while on the Continent the minor points are lost in overemphasis on the major, in America the major issue is sacrificed to incidentals...