Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national anthem. Five others voted for Luis Angel Firpo. The tie necessitated the casting of the decisive ballot by the President of the Council, with the result that the street will henceforth be known as Calle Luis Angel Firpo. When some of the Councillors later took the President to task for voting for me instead of the patriot-composer, that official exclaimed: 'Caramba! I thought you meant Vicente Lopez the tax collector, who is my enemy...
...anxious to be represented by men who have done most for the University and who are likely to do most for it throughout their lives. Difficulties arise from the fact that in a large, highly organized community such as Harvard, there are many different interests and consequently the task of picking the most representative members for the highest honors is not easy...
...because they were intelligent enough to understand or to visualize it--who has created a definite goal, toward which all nations will find themselves irresistibly urged in the perhaps not distant future, cannot be said to have failed. It is true that he could not perform the impossible task of instantly overcoming the inborn inhibitions and accumulated prejudices of the Senate, or of the American people or of the world. It is unfortunately true that he had no way of raising mankind to his own mental plane. But if Woodrow Wilson "failed," failure takes on a new significance...
...preparing him for this final achievement. He is in fact the author of "The Academy Song Book". "The Abridged Academy Song Book". "The Students' Hymnal" and "The American Song Book", besides "The Forerunners and Competitors of the Pilgrim and Puritan". He should certainly not therefore be taken to task if his Prize Plan is, as some malevolent critics have implied, nothing but "The old sweet song...
...nothing high in the purposes of any war, except in so far as the purposes of the men who are shaping its course and who are waging it are high. And so again, until people think a peaceful world is possible, there will be no lasting peace. The task of the statesman, then, is one of moral leadership. He can build a better State only in so far as be can change the attitude and purposes...