Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ought not to be an easy task for a man of Mr. Dawes' tempera- ment. Already it is apparent what j things may be said of him. Sen- ator Pat Harrison, whip-tongued I keynoter and fire-eater from Mis- sissippi, has unleashed his vocal chords, calling "strikes" derisively against any Republican who may come to bat. Last week he gave his hounds of speech a preliminary run: "With Borah as its leader in foreign affairs, challenging the Administration's position with reference to the World Court, and Dawes, the Mussolini of American politics, threatening invasion and destruction...
...world. George S. Hellman's "The True Stevenson" was written to overthrow the conception of Stevenson as a whimsical angel. The public has been led into this error by prejudiced biographers; and Mr. Hellman is the son of his time in rejoicing, always without prejudice, over the task of setting the public right...
...number of intercollegiate games to four, the abandonment of "championships," a graduate coaching system on a professor's salary basis, and no direction from the coaches during games. And if college athletics really need revision what more promising sign could there be than the undertaking of that task by the students themselves? --The Boston Herald...
...evident that the editors of the Outlook have made the not uncommon mistake of confusing general cultural education with professional preparation. These eastern universities which have limited their numbers make no attempt at preparing the undergraduate directly for life, leaving that task for the graduate schools; but unlimited institutions, particularly the great western universities, have adapted themselves, by including professional courses in undergraduate curricula, to the student who cares nothing for his general development. Thus a student who has entered college only because everyone else is doing it, without much purpose of broadening himself culturally, has access to undergraduate courses...
Sitting before the mirror in his dressing room, engaged in the task of remodelling his face for the foot-lights, Leon Errol, famed master-comedian, last night expressed his views on various phases of the theatre in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...