Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factions are almost exact opposites. The Cantonese in the South were first organized by the great leader, Sun Yat-Sen. He possessed the ambition to make every Chinese man, woman, and child politically conscious. His task was almost inconceivable to the Western mind. China for 2000 years had been steeped in the Confucian doctrine that 'people can be made to follow but not to know why', and during the Manchu dynasty the notice was posted in tea-houses the country over--'Don't talk politics...
...author, Professor of Psychiatry in the Harvard Medical School, declares that much physical ill comes from false thinking--a thesis that he supports with convincing examples. He predicts that the next great task of medicine will be to combat the unsound beliefs that subtly but surely undermine health...
...wonders if a Society for the Introduction of Civilization into Large Colleges would do any good? Would it cure these Dionysians, graduate and undergraduate, if they were settled among the Pueblo Indians to learn gentlemanly sportsmanship and the rudiments of breeding? But this would be laying too hard a task upon those children of an immemorial culture --New York Times...
With the graduation of the entire foils team, and several of the other swordsmen, Coach Danguy will have a hard task to mould a winning team from the comparatively inexperienced material on hand. The most promising team-members are Captain R. P. Outerbridge, '28, Manager A. C. Lane, '27, M. R. Berliner, '28, J. F. Davidson '27, D. F. Edgar '29, C. B. Hollister, '29, and G. H. Umbsen, '29, the last three stars of last year's Freshman aggregation...
...strictly historical comedy, depicting the career of Beranger, the favorite French song writer of the early nineteenth century, and consequently accuracy of detail was demanded. The fact that the production won more favorable notices than any other given by the Club before or since is proof that the task was accomplished with merit...