Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Department, faced with a thankless task, deserves sympathy. As the educational authorities who have written in recent issues of the CRIMSON on the transition from school to college have pointed out, the product of the preparatory schools is often inadequately prepared in the rudiments of French, German, and Spanish, and so long as this continues to be the case elementary language courses will be necessary. The University, moreover, justly thinks first in French 2 of a well-rounded reading knowledge, though the extent to which this is secured is open to question...
...have passed since Lincoln spoke [here]. Ours is a new day and ours new problems. There are times when these problems loom ominous and their solution difficult. Yet we would be of little courage if in our concerns we had less faith than Lincoln had in his far greater task. . . . If only our leadership had always been tempered by the moderation and calm vision of Lincoln...
...pocked with Indian mounds which have yielded bushels of arrow heads and other implements. One of the greatest mound discoveries was in Moundsville where, in 1838, was unearthed stone plaque covered with cryptic writing. Hoping to find some trace of the ancestry of prehistoric Americans savants plunged into the task of deciphering the writing...
Finding new thrills for the masses who read their fiction in the newspapers is a taxing task for feature editors. Sex stories always sell, but detective stories, War stories, even gangster stories are becoming "old stuff." Last week, William Randolph Hearst's New York American, ever mindful of the classics, solved its feature problem by simply beginning to reprint that 50-year-old saga, originally printed in 64 nickel novels, Deadwood Dick, Prince of the Road by Edward L. Wheeler. Readers past middle-age, to whom the yellow paperbacked books were forbid den in childhood, fondly renewed acquaint ance...
...facts of the case are too well known. Guided by purely legal and technical aspects the Law demanded a conviction for the public sale of "Lady Chatterly's Lover." To Attorney Bushnell devolved the unsavory task of pressing the charges and securing the conviction; in performing his public duty he had no choice. His plea yesterday for revocation of the charges was naturally based on his and the community's indignation against the Watch and Ward Society's use of falsehood and deception in securing the evidence against Mr. Delacey...