Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While such an attitude is doubtless admirable for its liberality, the difficulties consequent upon its practice are obvious. Under the policy Professor Holcombe advocates, universities would be faced with the difficult and dangerous task of deciding when students have kept "within the law." This task is in no sense fitting to a university, which cannot be considered a competent judge of legal matters. More important, however, is the fact that a student's activities outside the campus are solely his own affair. If he chooses to run the risk of participating in violent demonstrations on questions political or otherwise...
...centuries ago one John Gay, a poet, wrote a lyric play called The Beggars' Opera in which he slurred Sir Robert Walpole, British Prime Minister who had assumed the task of rescuing England from the financial crash following the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. When Gay wrote a sequel and the Duchess of Queensberry solicited subscriptions for it in the palace, right-minded Queen Caroline indignantly dismissed her from the Court...
...that group the events of 1926 are veiled in legend. Today is one which starts a new era in our athletic history, one which must be conducted with good feeling and high standards. Ours is the pleasure to witness the first tests of this rebuilded chain, ours the task to keep it whole...
Those favoring the merger claimed that it would make the task of both bodies casier and would reach a greater number of students, while those opposed insisted that such a merger would destroy the integrity of the Forum, and due to its interhouse aspect would exclude graduate students and commuters...
...practiced hard every day alone, then gradually began to speak in larger and larger groups, took a public speaking course, and received an "A," and finally became a lecturer at the Medical School. This was the result of three years of daily practice, however, showing that although possible, to task is by no means easy...