Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America is to be the home of educated persons, and we have devised a scheme of government and devised a scheme of life based on that pre-supposition, that young Americans can be liberally educated and that for that purpose the college primarily exists. I think then, really, the task which faces the American college is to answer that question. In one form or another, all colleges are facing this question, and rather desperately. Can the colleges do the thing which it is expected to do? Can it give a liberal education...
...represent the reorganization committee of bondholders, own the onetime Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, a system estimated at $750,000,000. They bought it at an auction sale in Butte, Mont., last week for $140,000,000 and their promise to untangle the road's debts, no light task. For the pres-ent there will be no change among the operating executives. But the system's name has been altered to the Chicago, Milwaukee & Pacific Railroad, with "The Milwaukee" as the nickname to be popularized. In St. Paul, famed neighbor of famed Minneapolis, Minn., this renaming is viewed...
...such a division were practical the proposal would be excellent. But the task of separating the studious sheap from the frivolous goals is no small one. No one cares to admit, except possibly to his intimates, that his presence in college is but a conventional period of growth: such, a condition might very well be-true but few will boast of it Whether or not Dr. Park is over-emphasizing a contemporary disease, it is difficult to say. Certainly, in spite of their flippancy, his remarks cut deep, emanating as they do from a man vitally connected with modern education...
...research carried on by young Doctors of Philosophy. Nearly all of them would prefer to I teach, than to spend time in tiresome and painstaking solution of historical problems. And the research itself, tedious and exacting though it is, does not tell the whole story of a scholar's task. There is facing the inquirer the orderly and accurate presentation of his acquired facts. Few men today have the patience or the skill in writing to attempt this expository task. In this decline of capable writers lies one reason for the sterility of young scholars, and in it is apparent...
From these figures anyone may see just where he stands in the scale of vocabulary and intelligence. If any individual is sufficiently interested to test his own verbose store. Let him search through an unabridged dictionary, as advised by Dr. Vizetelly, and find out As a preliminary to this task. Dr. Vizetelly, suggests a test of perseverance. Fill, he says, a tumbler full of dried peas, place it in one room, and carry the peas one by one to fill and empty glass in another room. If one is able to do this, he is qualified, to try the vocabulary...