Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weld has nearly finished the task of selecting his committee. A series of weekly meetings of those chosen will be held to make the arrangements for the event...
...this sequel to "Those Earnest Victorians," Mr. Wingfield-Stratford sets himself the complex task of describing the several stages of twilight that followed the day of the mid-Victorians. In considering the diverse aspects of the last three decades of the century, his gifts for summary and the choice of significant detail enable him to be consistently solid, without opacity, and hence, consistently absorbing. The miscellaneous course of empire, comprising shoes as well as ships, and cabbages along with kings; the "crumbling of the old certainties," the decline of traditional society, the rise of sport for sport's sake...
...last twenty-five years has been that of a pioneer. Unlike the other graduate schools, it did not grow up with the profession for which it trains, and thus far in its career it has been concerned with "learning about business as it exists." To its success in this task of teaching the methods and intricacies of big business, the ease with which Morgan Hall continues to find place for its graduates bears indisputable testimony...
...larger and a more responsible one. To study the technique of an industrial system which has shown its utter unfitness for any enlightened country, will not in the future be enough. Dean Donham, himself a leading advocate of voluntary planning, is under no delusions on this point. "The larger task ahead," he says in his latest report, "is the training of men for the kind of administrative responsibility which . . . recognized business not alone as an aggregation of specialities, or even as a unity which can be thought of in isolation apart from the social organism; but as one social force...
...recent years, the CRIMSON has undertaken to assist in this task of liaison between the administration and the student body. But there is present in this role the danger of confusing the acts of the right hand with those of the left: the left passes down from the rostrum the official advice about undergraduate activities; the right ventures to deliver to the rostrum undergraduate criticisms of the conduct of one part of the University or another. Several of the articles in the series on concentration seem ignorant of their proper role. They endeavor to hand on the freshman a representation...