Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time. (History courses are notorious offenders in this respect.) At the worst, such courses ought to direct the graduate to fruitful subjects of original research; these are frequently remote from the main body of the subject. The undergraduate's aim, to the contrary, is more modest, and the task of the professor in to introduce him to the vital aspects of a given subject while avoiding the superficial gleaning of the survey course...
...class was almost his only diversion. He applied himself to getting ahead. When in the sixties he went into the oil refinery business, his way went through chaos. He shuddered at the prolific wastes of competition. The solution which he saw was combination and he applied himself to the task of making a combination which would make his business secure. The only safety was supremacy. One secret of the Standard Oil was that it was a combination of brains. His associates, Harkness, Flagler, Archbold, Rogers, Payne, Pratt and Whitney were among the shrewdest, most unscrupulous and determined men of business...
...organization of an all-star team of New England college players to oppose the Braves on December 10 has been definitely abandoned, following the refusal of E. L. Casey '19, Harvard coach, to undertake the task. Efforts are now being made to obtain a college team of suitable drawing power to oppose the Braves, but Leary was extremely dubious as to the success of negotiations. President Lowell has unconditionally offered the use of the Stadium...
...position of the resident tutor, inspite of his task of justifying the investment of an almost fabulous sum, is not unpleasant. He arranges his books in a wainscoted study, gets marmalade for his breakfast toast free of charge, and is left to enjoy himself pretty much as he will. He may take any attitude toward his position, considering it a comfortable, comparatively inactive, monkish life; or he may realize all its possibilities, mingling with students, pouring a few ideas into the impressionable void. For the best resident tutors, men who take the second attitude, the future holds little. Being...
Education has too long been taken for granted in America. Democratic theory has enshrined it as an indisputable right; but there is no right with-out duty. It is the inescapable and solemn task of both institutions and individuals to fulfill that duty...