Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply faced the fact-"The small family has come to stay"-and queried the future: "Will the task ahead be easier because of our ethnic complexity and a corresponding dilution of our more homogeneous elements, or shall we be confronted with unheard-of problems that will test the optimism of the most hopeful...
...remedy seems to lie in a general recognition of the two-fold aspect of education by both faculty and students. All students should be informed of the double nature of their task at the very beginning, and faculty advice should be employed to check one-sidedness in either direction. It is a matter of particular interest at this time that the Report of the Student Council Committee on Education, which will be made public tomorrow, deals with this problem at some length and offers a number of concrete suggestions for its solution...
...feeding of infants when the mothers cannot do so with their own milk has been an arduous task for physicians. They have been at their wit's end for substitutes. Wet nurses will not always do, sometimes because they are unavailable, more often because they may suffer from contagious diseases to which their own offspring may be immune. Dr. Brouzet (Sur I'education medecinale des enfants) thought so poorly of human mothers that he wished the state to interfere and keep them from suckling their young lest they communicate immorality and disease. The chemist Van Helmont called milk "brute food...
...justice to a work of this sort, is a task which might well prove a stumbling block to a choral society made up of especially trained voices. Yet the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard Glee Club showed themselves fully equal to the occasion...
...Kelly pointed out that the reason for the existence of the competitive system in physical training is to arouse a feeling of rivalry among the Freshmen, and in that way, make physical exercise a pleasure and not a task...