Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College. It has quashed the protest against the shortening of library hours; it has helped with the appointments to the Freshman smoker committee; and it has arranged the class elections. Of these accomplishments, the first was not revealed to the public, the second was a necessary but minor task, and the third is and has been so mismanaged as to draw endless criticism on the heads of those connected with it. The Council's annual report which is now being drawn up is its one real contribution, in most years, and even that is sometimes not made public...
...little real use, and might well be incorporated into a better calculated and expanded position; the baby deans, while they are effective in handling the cases of academic routine, and in issuing threats against offenders, are of little or no service in advising undergraduates; this portion of their task should be turned over to a recognized office instead of being handled, as at present, in helter-skelter fashion. The Adviser in Religion, under another name, with a larger field of action, and no longer doing the work of other men, nor having his work done by them, would...
Reprinted in these columns is the editorial written on the occasion of President Lowell's accession to his present office; a glance at this suffices to show one of the more evident differences between the task which confronted President Lowell and the task which will confront President Conant in the fall. The physical development of Harvard is now an accomplished fact: the House Plan and the tutorial system have reached a stage in their existence where any further treatment is a matter of small refinements and revision of detail. To a large extent, the new President's work will consist...
...forty years this month since President Eliot faced a task like that which now confronts President Lowell. In those forty years the college of local fame has expanded into the university whose name and influence are known to all the world. The problems of the large institution are different from these of the small college, but we are confident that President Lowell will reach their solution as wisely and as certainly as his great predecessor overcame the obstacles of the last administration...
Meanwhile the Tokyo War Office proudly announced that Japan would make no further advance south of the Great Wall, that the Heaven-Sent Army had reached all its objectives, finished its task...