Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of you will drift, peacefully drift, but ships that drift land on the beach wrecked. Some 50 per cent of you will mean well but do feebly. You will follow the rules, but you will not put your all into the task. But it takes courage to plot your course and see it through to the end. The hundred per centers among you will have that courage...
Such is the task that confronts the Freshman, to be accomplished in the preposterously short period of three days. And on the success of the enterprise will often depend the fate of those who find themselves burdened in the middle of the year with an impossible schedule. If the "Freshman Days" must offer a found of pleasant surprise parties, they should afford what is far more important--an opportunity for a spell of concentrated course research...
...conception of the nature of our industrial system, and of the reasons why policies which are sound for a single enterprise may lead to utter collapse in the system as a whole. They must realize their responsibility to society and have the knowledge necessary to fulfill it. To the task of training such leaders, it is high time that the Business School turned its full attention...
...morning, of the three hundred and seventy-five volumes originally projected two hundred and seventy-two have already been published, and the work for the remaining volumes has already been entrusted to suitably selected scholars In different parts of the world who will now be enabled to complete their task without being troubled by pecuniary anxiety. Under the terms of his will Dr. Loeb has provided a sum of $300,000 (*60,000 at par) to endow an institution to be called the Loeb Classical Library Foundation to carry on the noble work of which he was the originator...
...Field. We will put on the opera with a company of 1,000, and Col. Zack Miller has promised us anything from his big menagerie. I had lunch with him and chose five elephants and a number of horses, camels and zebras." She paid the advance expenses, undertook the task of getting an all-Texas cast together in Chicago. With the little Houston Civic Opera as a nucleus, she organized the Texas Grand Opera Association, got Delia Samoiloff, who once appeared with the defunct Chicago Opera, as Ai'da, Soprano Dreda Aves of Manhattan's Hippodrome Company...