Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What with all the epistles from reproving old gentlemen, giddy flappers, learned scholars, and even the mentally unbalanced, the editors feel that when the winner is announced in the March issue of the magazine, a superhuman task will have been accomplished...
Whereas to Mr. Hillyer the task of writing a review of "Confusion"--Mr. Cozzens' recently composed novel--without having read the whole text of it, has seemed somewhat difficult, the task of comparing the novel with the work of other college authors, without having read any of it, will doubtless appear more difficult still. And yet the mere fact that Mr. Cozzens, a sophomore in the University, has written a novel which is "competent and occasionally brilliant" is significant in itself. The University now has a young author whom it can place side by side with Mr. Fitzgerald of Princeton...
...taken exactly one hour to wind the great clock. In Memorial tower. This fact was revealed yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter by Mr. Walter Walford who has performed the task every Saturday afternoon for the last eight years...
...University staff who appears to be over-worked. This is the gentleman who lifts the 1500-pound and 1000-pound weights for the Memorial Hall clock. One is inclined to regard this statement with skepticism, if not absolute disbelief, but it is well authenticated. Of course, this Herculean task has to be performed only once a week, and, it seems, can be accomplished in a single hour, but a hundred foot tons sounds like a great deal of work...
...however, the Blue won the game in the Arena and subsequently lost the rubber contest at New Haven. But this season the story has a different twist, for the Crimson will have to capture two games straight in order to come away with honors for the series. The immediate task in hand, however, is preparing the sextet for the next Big Three clash, which comes a week from today, when the Tiger arrives in Boston...