Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specialization of knowledge. The course of scholarship has proceeded along lines of greater and greater subdivision of subject matter. This was necessary and is bound to continue, but in our enthusiasm for more information we have neglected the need for integration and synthesis. Great minds are required for the task. Small minds may unearth new details but only great minds can weave new patterns from the minutes cast up by lesser intellects...
...last analysis, somewhat monotonous because, in the words of Mr. George Santayane, it has been constant, through those three hundred years, to one purpose and function. Still the moral to be drawn from this 'fidelity to tradition' is exciting and is apt to bestir one to the task not only of perpetuating but also of propagating the ideals for which the Latin School stands...
...stated that it would be my final annual gift to the unified budget of the Northern Baptist Convention. Hereafter, such sums as I may donate to general religious work, it is my present thought to contribute to specific projects, chiefly interdenominational or nondenominational in character, which interpret the Christian task in the light of present day needs and which are based not so much on denominational affiliation as on broad, forward-looking principles of cooperation...
...relaxing of departmental requirements or the intensity of work. It merely expresses the undergraduate feeling that the benefit and enjoyment from writing papers and theses would be greatly increased by having a period in which there would be "the possibility of continuous application to an academic task." Unlike other reading periods this one is not the signal to undergraduates to extend their vacations. For Juniors a safeguard against this flaw, as it exists in other systems, is placed in the requirement that they produce departmental papers at the end of the period. As for Seniors we feel that the Council...
...passing word or nod of the head, too many varying accounts are put forward by self-justifying participants. In September 1923 Mark Sullivan hired his secretary's brother as assistant, set out to carry on approximately where Twenty Years of the Republic had left off. In the enormous task which he had set himself, Historian Sullivan's first move was to thumb through the newspapers of the time, rake over his own memories and mementoes. Next he consulted available documents-biographies, magazine articles, stenographic reports, the Congressional Record. Photographs, drawings, cartoons he culled from the files...