Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uphold the reputation laid at their thresholds. For above all we of the younger generation are anxious to please--and if we are expected to be shocking, shall we not do our best to give satisfaction? But when everyone except the culprits themselves is allowed to make suggestions, this task is becoming increasingly difficult...
...means of teaching English. A bulky report on the general subject has recently been published by the Department of Education. It was prepared by a number of men and women, some of whom are educators and several of whom are writers. They evidently brought fresh minds to their task, and their conclusions and recommendations are singularly unconventional. The chief one is mentioned above. Even lessons in mathematics or science can be, and ought to be, made a medium of instruction in the English language...
...hard task is in store for the Freshman hockey team when they face the St. Pauls sextet at 10 o'clock this morning at Concord, N. H. In their losing contest with the University stick-men, the school-boys showed a serious lack of team-work but the individual playing of most of the skaters gave promise of a formidable sextet as soon as Coach Campbell could whip them into an evenly working team. Captain Davis is an especially speedy skater and several times he broke through the University line alone to threaten the Crimson cage. Working with...
...rest of the year between eleven-fifty and twelve o'clock on Monday morning is a case of marrying in haste and repenting at leisure. And for the man who decries paternalism, the authorities may well say that as long as students are unable to perform the simple task of getting their study-cards in on time, they can scarcely be trusted with heavier responsibilities...
Considering this fact one is inclined to wonder what will be the reception to the blanks distributed today by the Secretary and Treasurer. The Class Fund is always a difficult thing to organize; if only 25 per cent of the class agree to contribute, the task of keeping the unity of the class alive, already sufficiently difficult, will be rendered well-nigh impossible...