Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bake Library of the Business School in Room 223 contains some outstanding studies of industrial subjects by Gerrit A. Beneker. More restricted in field than the late Joseph Pennell, Mr. Beneker has undertaken to show only the art of steel manufacture and the men who engage in the task. Unlike the etchings of Pennell which represent merely the image that reaches the human eye, the rich oils of Beneker convey all the realism of being, and all the strength and solidity of steel. Perhaps it is the medium in which the work is done that accounts for the difference...
...Both worked in industrial subjects, both were Carl Sandburgs in the field of painting. Just as Sandburg found as much beauty in the steel of a skyscraper as in the waving wheat, so Pennell and Beneker were not so blinded by the beauty of Nature as to foresake the task of translating onto canvas beauty for the hand of man. Beneker made these oil paintings while in actual contact with the operations of the steel mills in Cleveland 12 years...
...misfortune that frequently, in a world so lonely as ours can be, it is not possible for the questing mind of the teacher to draw peaceful satisfaction from the art of teaching. Our intellectual systems have released a world of potentialities. But each individual is faced with the Herculean task of making a personal adjustment to this formidable problem, and to the war generation even more than to ourselves this presents an undertaking which is sometimes too much...
...brains had legs, most brains would be all legs, or so Walter Boughton Pitkin, breezy professor in Columbia University's School of Journalism, seems to imply. For its gangling lack of intelligence the Professor takes the world to task. Its follies, like its females, show an infinite variety, but there seem to be only nine major categories of human stupidity. "These intermarry and blend in all sorts of combinations. . . . Some rise to glory, while others are hunted by the police. The history of them all is the history of our race, in the main." Though abysmal dullness abounds, Author...
...clear however, that the immediate task of the Republicans will not be so difficult as that of the Democrats. While Hoover is the obvious G.O.P. leader, the question of leadership of the Democrats is undecided and very complicated. Unless they can attain some degree of solidarity, it is probable that the opportunity which the depression offers them will be lost...