Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task of the Commission shall be to elucidate disputed questions, to collect all information necessary, and to endeavor to bring the parties to an agreement...
...Five years ago I thought that after five years I would have finished the major part of my work. Now I see I have not, 1 am convinced that, despite the gradual creation of a directing class, despite the discipline of the people, I must assume the task of governing the Italian people for 10 or 15 years more, if necessary, not because I am lustful for power but because it is my precise duty. ... [A pause, arms folded, then, challengingly] My successor it not yet born! [Applause, quickly stilled...
...speaking of the first, and in fact the continuing task of such a School--to find what essentials should and could be taught, and then learning how they could be taught, Professor Gay told of the skeptical business man, an admirer of West Point methods, who came to visit the School in its early days. The visitor asked what, apart from a certain amount of technical knowledge, were the qualities required for success in business. The answer was: "Judgment, courage, and that combining and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness of 'gumption'." When he said triumphantly...
...keep Harvard men in touch with the University is an ideal often proposed; to accomplish it is a large but most important task. With the Committee in operation, no graduate need ignorantly compare favorably or unfavorably, the "good old days" with a present which is doing its best to communicate with him. That deep-rooted interest which graduates take in their university is a matter outside the ken of the undergraduate; but he has every reason to be grateful that after graduation there will be a medium through which not only will the University be able to speak...
...develop judgment build up competence and experience as an executive, and then turn these all back, in 1914 to the service of Harvard's athletics as their graduate treasurer. In that office, until yesterday, he gave for thirteen years his full time, the first man ever to take this task as his only task, his only...