Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anghsi, who was a great patron of letters. In the Harvard Chinese library is the original palace edition of a concordance of phrases found in classical, poetical, historical, and philosophical literature, arranged by rhymes. The complicated system of symbols used in the Chinese alphabet at this period rendered the task a life work for a large commission of scholars, who were commanded to devote themselves to it by the emperor...
There arises a suspicion that the National Council of English Teachers is avoiding a difficult task when it reasons: "The populace makes mistakes in English; the populace is good; therefore mistakes are good." The American version of the English tongue is fast losing all the pleasant qualities that make the pages of the Spectator and of Dickens mellow and stimulating. It has acquired a raucous tone, journalistic and barbarous. Balanced periods have disappeared even from legislative oratory, the hasty precision of modernity has killed leisurely and reflective style. These faults may be laid at the door of American classrooms, where...
...last analysis, the indicator of success and failure. If has chosen a time when the tendency is for students to be more and more preoccupied by their studies, and ever less interested in extra-curricular activities. Under intelligent and responsible direction which fully realizes the magnitude of the task which it is undertaking, there is, however, a good chance that the magazine will make itself a lasting part of the Harvard scene. The healthiest growths are those which thrive under adverse conditions, and if the Harvard Critic make a permanent place for itself it will be a welcome and valuable...
...Vagabond loves not a cold ride through tortuous traffic, even though he may find a goal in a new haven. No more is he thrilled by the prospect of a makeshift bed in the room of one to him had stranger. Even more reluctantly does he embrace the task of wresting precious tickets from the hands of those whose God-given work it would seem to be to keep them hidden in the filling cases on Harvard Street. Then there is the bitter disappointment when he reaches for the flagon, and finds only the flask...
...attaining peace by further warfare has in it something repugnant, quite apart from the practical difficulties for doing it. It is clear that with the armament of the nations in its present state, enforcement of any decree agreeable to all nations but one would be a long and bloody task. With national mentalities as they are, people would be quick to defend their governments crimes, and loath to punish the transgressions of others, so long as they themselves were not molested. Their governments would of course encourage their ardor with propaganda, and supply them their guns and graves...