Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hypocrisy. He has sailed many months, he has sailed many weeks over uncharted seas of hypothesis on a search for the Snark of serious student opinion, and lo! it is only a Boojum. He may well be excused if he decides that his is a thankless task, and determines that the student should be taught rather than educated...
...Prince created a sensation when he first made his appearance in Cambridge, with tales of Russian court life, a wondrous wardrose, and an uncanny ability to win in ten cent a point bridge games. Gradually his source of supply failed, and he turned his activities to the highly remunerative task of scientifically milking Harvard Square merchants. That he was a plausible young man is evidenced by his running up a $257 bill on M. P. Toohy, a custom boot maker on Boylston Street, and one almost as large at August...
...series of well-drilled flights of oratory, the object of which was to dodge adroitly an ever shifting "burden of proof". The far-flung reputation of Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech undoubtedly impressed schoolboy orators with the desirability of mastering this style; but it has made the task of training a college team to speak simply and directly vastly more difficult. It is recorded that one of the recent coaches of University debaters made persistently eloquent candidates speak in trial debates with a waste paper basket under each arm. Less humiliating was the requirement of having members...
...Chicago, is internationally respected as one of the two or three greatest authorities on Egypt. He has written many standard works; his Ancient Times is known to thousands of schoolboys and laymen as fascinating reading as well as sound history. If any man deserves to succeed in this task, it is Dr. Breasted...
...that the two years spent there in theoretical work are wasted, and that it would be better to enter business immediately, but I believe that the Business School training is practically invaluable. Not only does it develop a man's quickness and ability to coordinate his thoughts on the task at hand, but, above all, it teaches him the exact methods by which the big firms carry on their work in each branch of the business. It also gives him a wider grasp and knowledge of the whole field, and a broader outlook on the work in which...