Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this spring will bring pleasure to the few who recall the excitement of that occasion. But more pleasing, and more worth while, is the active and long preparation planned by the Democratic Club this winter. This organization--not strictly partisan in spite of its name--has voluntarily undertaken the task of giving the University a course in contemporary United States politics. Already two public lectures have been given under its auspices; and how comes the announcement that three United States Senators and a former Cabinet member have accepted speaking appointments. Among this list of speakers, appropriately enough, is Senator Carter...
...candidate becomes immediately upon his election to the Board a full fledged editor. And as an editor he will often be faced with situations which require a large measure of prompt and vigorous action. He may find some afternoon in the late spring that he is confronted with the task of getting out an entire paper practically without assistance; he may learn of an important appointment or death at a late hour some night when he has only his own judgement and resources upon which to rely. To fit himself for such emergencies he must under go a rigorous novitiate...
Still more appalling is the task of taking effective steps against the Dry Dragon, a passive enemy feared even in the Occident. It is of record that under the Chou Dynasty, more than two millenniums ago, some 660.000 acres in Shensi were benefiting by a prudent irrigation system. But toilsome Chinese efforts, both before and since, have availed less in relieving droughts than have their partially successful flood control methods (success being measured by the proud statement of Chinese scholars that the great Yellow River has completely altered its course only three times in the last millennium...
...teach. In the second half year the various sections of the course pursue specialized lines of study. But, in spite of this, I believe there is need for a much greater individual opportunity. Now that only the inferior Freshmen are required to take English A, the instructor's task in the course has become even less attractive than formerly, and it is more essential that the section men should not be confined to the teaching of it alone. They should be allowed to direct advanced literature courses of their own in order to keep them fresh and to give them...
...will improve every opportunity to study and reflect upon America. Its size will baffle you, perhaps, and I am sure you will want to suspend your judgments until you have had some experience with American life, if possible in other parts of America. It is not an easy task for any of us to get accurate and adequate impressions of a country which is not our own. Few men know much about their own country, and to train oneself as an observer abroad usually requires much experience. There are many things in which all countries and all civilizations...