Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corporation asked the Legislature to issue a grant for another lottery. In presenting its case, the college pointed out is absolute lack of money after the erection of Stoughton Hall and repairs made on Massachusetts Hall. With the granting of their plea, the University authorities set about their task of raising $30,000. The cost of running the lottery ran up as high as $24,500, but it netted $29,000, just 1,000 dollars short of the original goal. The hall is named after Sir Matthew Holworthy, who gave more money to Harvard University during the 17th century than...
...views on the motion picture industry will be the subject of his Union speech. As general supervisor of the entire business he is in intimate touch with its problems and policies. He was formerly Postmaster General under President Harding, but resigned that position to assume the task of straightening out the difficulties which the new and rapidly growing movie industry was encountering. Since he assumed the newly created office, motion picture companies have eliminated many of the evils which formerly retarded their progress. He will tell of what has been done in this industry, and what he expects...
...finds that the day's fare is so plentiful and so temptingly varied, that he is quite appalled at the prospect of choosing the lectures to serve as his daily morsels of mental delecation. In such sore doubt himself, it is with trepidation that he undertakes the perilous task of scanning the menu for the entertainment of his parishioners...
...that the U. S. undertake to preserve peace in Nicaragua and the continuity of the Nicaraguan Government; 2) that accordingly the right of intervention in Nicaragua be extended to the U. S. by mutual consent; 3) that a U. S. financial adviser and receiver-general of revenues assume the task of rehabilitating the finances of Nicaragua with dictatorial powers; 4) that a loan of $20,000,000 from exclusively U. S. sources is declared indispensable for rehabilitating Nicaragua; 5) that all military paraphernalia now possessed by Nicaraguans be handed over to a new constabulary, trained by and under the command...
...Leekley '27, a veteran of two former Yale games, will share with A.W. Slocum '28 the task of gaining a lead for Harvard...