Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signing of the armistice, and even, in the instance of the Peace Ship, before it, this has been the aim of countless groups and societies in every branch of human activity. Each unit operates alone its own lines toward the same end, and beats a part of the enormous task of organizing public opinion...
Advices from Washington show that Secretary Hughes and the State Department are warmly in favor of a proposal that would aim to equip diplomatic aspirants with the professional training needed for the delicate and momentous task of executing the foreign policy...
...expected. And the advisors, even though they feel little responsibility and less interest, have certain duties which they have accepted. To obtain the best results, the spirit of the advisors should be otherwise. But taking it as it exists; there is still the obligation to carry out the task assigned, which it is difficult, in all conscience to resist...
...James H. Breasted, in the spot-light for his thankless task of peace-making in the TutankhAmen controversy, has published through the New York Historical Society a bulletin on an Egyptian papyrus of 1600 B. C., owned by the Society, the oldest scientific book in America. The roll is over 15 feet long, 13 inches high, and written on both sides. It deals with the medical and surgical practice of the Egyptians. The author was not a quack or magician, but a serious medical scholar. The deciphering of the papyrus by Dr. Breasted was made doubly difficult by technical terminology...
...learning from liberal arts to applied science, and as long as secondary schools seek to prepare both for vocations and for college. A clearer definition of functions a national educational policy and system are obviously accessary. Unless refuge is to be taken in government control this is a task for the unselfish thought of the alumni of all institutions as President Kinley intimated. And the most effective means to this end would seem to be that very energetic discussion which he has scorned...