Word: burden
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...evening at 7 o'clock all competitors will meet in the Assembly Room of the Union, where each man will be given five minutes to speak on any phase of the question, "Resolved, That the French government should adopt an income tax in order to distribute more equitably the burden of taxation." Six or seven men will be retained from this competition to speak in the final trial in the New Lecture Hall on Friday, December...
...subject to be discussed in the competition for the Pasteur Medal this year will be: "Resolved, That the French Government should adopt an income tax in order to distribute more equitably the burden of taxation." The regulations governing this competition will be the same as last year. Instead of having a regular debate between two teams of three men each, as was done for several years, the competitors will speak individually on any phase of the general topic chosen. The trials will be held on Friday, December 3, in the Assembly Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock...
Obviously the distribution in this way of tickets for three games will entail additional expense. It is unlikely that this additional expense will account for the extra profit which will be made with the price of admission thus advanced. In making the burden of financial support of athletics heavier, in one direction, the Athletic Association may reasonably be expected to lighten it somewhere else. We suggest the abolition of subscriptions as a most welcome relief...
Still more noticeable is this infirmity of thought in the article by F. S. entitled, "The Rich Man's Burden." With a stimulating subject in his hands--the chance of more and more inducing the foremost young men of the country to become teachers--the writer lapses into incoherence, leaving with the reader but one definite impression, that the profession of teaching "should be recruited from the rich...
Sophomore crew--Stroke, Peabody; 7, Jowett; 6, Perkins; 5, Beane; 4, Eliot; 3, Coe; 2, Ellis; bow, Burden; cox., Everett...