Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Confronted with such a tutorial relationship as Mr. Peterkin suggests, it would be only reasonable for any student to rebel. The difficulty of securing tutors with the necessary intellectual equipment for their task is certainly serious enough without adding to it the qualifications of character, tact, or sympathy with the student's personal problems. The individual problem, similarly, is such that there seems no adequate reason for adding to the tutor's responsibility over his charges...
Rather closely associated with the hospitality end of the Phillips Brooks House service, is the work of making easier the task of the student of limited means. In this connection, the Association, through the Graduate Secretary, cooperates with the Employment Bureau of the University in aiding such men to obtain paid social service work. It also maintains a Text book Loan Library of about 4,500 books which have been contributed by students. These books may be borrowed for the year by any student for the sum of five cents--a deposit of twenty-five cents a book being required...
...Malley hastened to Hankow. In London Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain could find nothing more militant to say than that of course the Chinese could seize all foreign concessions if they were so short-sighted as to do so. This attitude made Mr. O'Malley's task most difficult, though nothing could have made it easy. He entered forthwith upon negotiations looking to re-occupancy of the British concession and resumption of trade...
...long been left necessary that some sort of report be left by the Red Book Committees for the benefit of the coming Freshman class which is in most cases entirely ignorant of the enormous task ahead...
...Patient, detached, careful study by scholars is called for. If it is not done, other people will do the task in a different way and less effectively...