Word: burden
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Senior" has not yet proved itself of any worth by the formation of scrub teams, so beneficial to the development of a sport in its early stages, the Oxfords, in so far as they are Harvard men, must by virtue of the college of their origin still bear the burden of representing Harvard in ice polo...
...Elder of Boston and some fifteen members of the Yale academic and scientific faculties, to talk over the football question. While a number of the faculty present expressed no opinion, and two or three favored either drastic measures against football or important modifications of the rules, the burden of opinion as expressed was against interference with the game. One ground for this seemed to be that Yale, in the case of the Springfield game, had been unduly charged with violence as compared with Harvard, and that official interference with the game now would be an admission of the burden...
...Burden. 9. F. White...
...originally. - (b) Never intended to last beyond the war. - (c) Existence now has bad effect. - (1) On Treasury, depleting gold reserve. - (2) On business interests, making currency inelastic. - (x) Amount fixed by law: Act of May 31, 1878, Statutes at Large xx, 87. - (d) Retiring would not prove a burden. - (1) Amount less than commonly supposed. - (x) Boston and Chicago fires...
...unjust one. - (a) Not universal. - (1) Whole burden placed on a small portion of the community. - (b) Not equal. - (1) Professional men would pay practically nothing. - (2) Farmers would over pay: Pop. Sci. Quar., VI, 625. - (c) Not thorough: Jour. of Soc. Sci., 37. - (1) Unearned increment on hand is taxed. - (2) Other forms of increment escape: Century...