Word: tasks
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...certain tastes and interests, just as do other groups in the University. It has a function of service to Harvard which will not be affected by a centralization of control within the walls of the House. Beyond these opportunities to aid the College, there is a definite task awaiting the workers of the House in the city of Cambridge, a genuine need of social work that may be met in part by such college men as care to offer themselves. The confining of the direction of Brooks House policy to officers selected from among men of experience in the work...
...from God to the natural world. Today the emphasis upon the study of nature as a physical world is being to some extent replaced by an emphasis upon the study of human nature as a physical world. Backed by the methodology of science, man is setting about his prime task, that of investigating his own kind. The inner world of mind, unconscious forces, subjective values; these are becoming problems for contemplation and inquiry...
Dunster's first task was to get the first College building completed. Eaton, the "schoolmaster", just removed for his obvious unfitness to conduct a college, had got the frame erected--unfortunately of green timber which opened up in the first cold snap. Dunster got the floors and roof laid, partitions erected, the building finished, and furniture procured. He had the satisfaction of bringing all the students into residence, in September, 1642, and presiding at the first Commencement, according to the dignified rites of his mother university. This completion of the building was no small feat, for Dunster had not been...
Into the three years, 1920-1923, Chrysler packed a decade's experience of the one thing he thus far lacked-automotive finance. He overhauled the Willys-Overland company from hubcaps to stockholders and, in the midst of that task, undertook the same job for Maxwell. After cutting the Willys-Overland debt from 46 millions to 18, he gave Maxwell his whole attention. The Maxwell-Chalmers merger was one step and then the Chrysler Corporation took shape...
...convict's previous vocation. The skywriting aviator was "given a job painting the smokestacks and roofs; the prison warden was put in charge of the chickens; the radio-announcer was given a mop; the judge was made a waiter in the mess hall; the preacher was given the task of cleaning the chapel each day; the bartender was put to washing dishes; the pugilist was made a fireman in the power house; the masseur was given the job of manicuring the yard; and the pretzel peddler was assigned to the scavenger cart...