Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of contact, or rather of the right contact, between student and teacher. I know that the introduction of the tutors has been designed to overcome this defect, but I feel that their wings are clipped before they start by the very nature of their task. Their purpose is to help their men prepare for the general examinations in English-- examinations based on the assumption that knowledge of English literature is to be attained only through a survey of each period in its historical development, and through a study of all representative men whether great artists or not. A knowledge...
First lapping merrily, then lunging lustily, impudent waves made mock, last week, of seven wise Britons who set sail as an august commission to India. Patriotic, they will slave for more than a year, voluntarily, at a thankless task. Six of the wise men are Viscount Burnham, until recently owner of the London Daily Telegraph; Baron Strathcona, Unionist peer; Lieut. Col. George Richard Lane-Fox, up to the last fortnight Undersecretary of State for Mines; the Hon. Edward Cecil Cadogan, author-barrister M. P.; Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite M. P. and the Rt. Hon. Stephen Walsh, Secretary...
...that Russia has a primitive culture; there is much ignorance, drunkenness and superstition. On the other hand the new regime, consisting of a small minority of the population, is trying to infuse life with the most modern problem of politics. It is discouraging when you see what an enormous task the people have set themselves, because they are so far ahead of their times...
...latest book Fannie Hurst undertakes a pretentious task and fails somewhat of doing it justice. "A President is Born", is an effort to portray the early life and development of a man who was to become President of the United States. David Schuyler, the character in question, is followed from birth to early manhood, and occasion is found to indicate how his ability and qualifications for his later position in life worked themselves out, giving a forecast of the line of his subsequent achievements. To overcome the difficulty of interpreting the early life of her hero in the light...
...because it seems to him an extremely well written book is an unfortunate example of plagiarism. The Algonquin circle may like it; the higher literati may like it; but if this particular book or any other book does not appeal to the individual young man his is the unpleasant task of exhibiting the undergraduate thumbs down. His is the privilege of citing what he as a university student does or does not like. In the far greater number of cases his judgement will be in sincere accordance with that of his professional rivals. In the exceptions, however, he should remain...