Word: burden
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...happened at Harvard is that the large football surplus has in time, naturally enough, demoralized public sentiment on the question. The student body, as a whole, is much less ready to give money to support the teams than it was twenty, or even ten years ago, although the actual burden has grown steadily lighter. Under the circumstances such a state of feeling is not to be wondered at, and it has borne hard on the managers, for the unwilling subscriber has now a convenient fence to hide behind; indeed he can even display indignation that such an appeal is made...
...small means, and would thereby be contrary to the policy of the Committee which has steadily been in favor of making the entrance to games as cheap as possible for all undergraduates, trusting to the generosity and public spirit of those who can afford to subscribe, and lightening the burden of those who must count every dollar. In the second place it is quite doubtful whether the raising of the price of the H. A. A. tickets would accomplish its object as there would probably be a diminution in the sales sufficient to counterbalance the increase in the price...
...Stadium, but the $20,000 surplus would seem to indicate that we are doing our fair share towards removing that debt. As it is only reasonable to suppose that the University will last several years in the future, why not allow our successors to bear a part of the burden...
...Harvard members of the Association are: A. G. Fox '69, president; R. B. Cutting '97; W. A. M. Burden '00; and T. H. Whitney...
Retainers--J. W. Burden '06, W. G. Means '06, J. H. Lathrop '05, D. A. Newhall '06, J. D. Nichols '06, A. J. D. Paul '06, S. D. Preston '06, L. T. Swaim...