Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder about the state of society if Booth had missed Lincoln, or if the Moors had won in Spain. The result is a very entertaining little volume of essays which will offer a pleasant evening and perhaps, occasional moments of regret. It must have been a truly delightful task that these men undertook, for no scholar can find them in error...
...Such firms as the general Electric company, the Dupont company, and others can afford to give a scientist every possible comfort without even threatening him with a special task. He is not bothered with lectures and tutoring but works to his heart's content in the most theoretical fields. This is a taint of commercialism non the less: it is also a form of advertising on the part of the company, and depletes the university faculties. In this class come institutes endowed by millionaires for special advanced study, valuable as they may be to science, as they rarely hand knowledge...
...death of Eugene Raiche will be keenly felt by those Harvard men who have known him during his twenty years here as an Instructor in French. His contribution to the University did not lie in extended research, for he had more liking for the human task of teaching than for the type of work which brings academic distinction. He brought to his classes a genuine interest in the literature which they were studying and his fund of anecdote and unaffected philosophizing were always a pleasure to his students...
...this symposium my part is only to sit in silence. To express one's feelings as the end draws near is too intimate a task...
...Jack Oakie comes right out and calls itself a comedy. Oakie as a breezy, superstitious insurance agent feels it incumbent upon himself to rescue the daughter of a lawyer from the clutches of some gentlemen who out-Capone Capone. Gats, black-jacks, and, machine guns to the contrary the task is accomplished with the usual Oakiean touches. Those who like the young man in question, and rumor hath it that there be such, will enjoy the picture...