Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years of age, dressed in a brown coat and grey flannels, the Harvard scion has found it a simple task to remain incognito during his excursions through the Yard and elsewhere--even during a guide trip. In every detail of appearance or manner, from his deliberately complacent way of talking to his habit of shoving both hands deeply into his pockets, he might be taken for a "typical" Harvard man. He was even indifferent about Harvard itself until the tentacles of the Tercentenary entwined him, and even now refuses to display any enthusiasm for the University...
Whenever a particular class of rulers or a particular from of government has outlived its own usefulness, it is succeeded by another class of rulers or another form of government which at that moment happens to be better fitted for the task...
Some idea of the executive task behind the arrangements for the Tercentenary may be had when it is realized that for two full years preparations have been going on for a celebration less than three months long. Knowing the nature of the work ahead and the inevitable problems that would arise, the corporation loaded the burden upon the capable shoulders of Jerome D. Greene...
This left the Great Powers rebuffed and helpless, unless they were willing to intervene. Only voice of note to speak up on this risky point was that of the Primate of All England, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. "Mediation? Who can undertake the task?" he asked. "It would be a great thing if the leading European powers would attempt it, but this might lead only to dissension among themselves. . . . 'Disquieting signs that the world seems to be going mad have come from this horrible civil war in Spain...
...basis of the faculty's general opinion of the candidate. The abuses and favoritism possible under this system led Quincy to require from the instructors an accurate mathematical record of every recitation. Each week he complied the marks personally, in what was probably the most monuniental bookkeeping task ever assumed by a college president...