Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special function of any graduate school to carry on research in its particular field. Like the various faculties of the medieval universities it ought to be a center of thought on its subject. In addition to teaching long established knowledge the graduate school has the task of evolving new theories...
...England a man is judged as much by his school as by his college. To be from Eton or Harrow means as much as being an Oxford or a Cambridge graduate. If in this country the secondary schools would also take upon themselves the task of fitting their students for life as well as for college, a great number of men who really do not belong in college would not be there now, and the intellectual standards of the university could adapt themselves to the capacities of the more intelligent students...
...whether freshmen and sophomores are sufficiently competent really to benefit by this method of education is a very dubious one. Dr. Meiklejohn however considers the time ripe for an evaluation of his experiment and the results whether favorable or unfavorable can not fall to be of help in the task of creating a balanced university adapted to the needs of modern life...
...financial tangle of a century, New Hampshirites can still recall with pride the two great journalists whom the state produced: Horace ("Go West") Greeley and Charles A. Dana (New York Sun). Or if the present-day lawmakers and tax experts are to be taken to task, it is yet true that New Hampshire, one of the 13 Original States (which-neighboring Maine & Vermont were not) has given the U. S. many a famed statesman. Among them: Josiah Bartlett, "Signer"; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln; Governor John A. Dix of New York; Governors Butler, Cox of Massachusetts...
...editor on the average is responsible for "putting the paper to bed" once every ten or twelve days, and is free to choose the most convenient date. His evening task includes prescribing the length of each article and writing headlines. He has the advantages of association with others in interesting work, and sees the benefits of cooperation in finishing a job which must be completed at a set hour. Members of the news board also contribute editorials and theatre reviews...