Word: burden
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Supreme Court of Massachusetts addressed to the House of Representatives in 1843. This opinion states that a student must establish a legal domicile in the town where he wishes to vote, and as his domicile can be presumed to be that of his parent or guardian, the burden of proof rests upon him to establish a change of domicile, if his parent or guardian reside in some other locality than that in which he wishes to vote. This change of domicile can be established by a student working his way through college independently of his parents...
...city of Boston is also handicapped by a heavy debt, $116,000,000, and pays tremendous taxes to the state for the benefits she gets from its systems, her share of the metropolitan debt amounting to some $38,000,000. Although saddled with such a financial burden, Boston is in many respects one of the most fortunate communities on earth. The metropolitan park system, consisting of some seventy parks and playgrounds, is one of the finest in the world; the system of boulevards connecting the metropolitan reservations is nowhere excelled; the metropolitan water system has received encomiums the world over...
...University interested in acting or writing plays. From among these the more actively concerned will be chosen, officers for the coming year will be elected, a series of informal meetings arranged to discuss plans, and, in general, a working organization formed for the season of 1908-09. The burden of next year's activities will naturally fall upon the present Junior class; it is hoped, then, especially, that all Juniors interested in the club will ally themselves with it as soon as possible. Arrangements will be made for a play competition to extend over the summer, the successful play...
...clock: A. D. Barker, H. V. Borst, C. G. Burden, J. Coolidge, R. A. Hatch, N. Harris, P. W. Hobart, R. H. Holt, K. W. Hunter, G. P. McCouch, L. M. Neagle, H. Nickerson, J. C. Shaw, F. C. Stevens, W. K. Taylor, A. Wheeler, P. F. Wild, E. N. Wright...
...those men who can afford to give relatively large sums to the class fall to do so, the more conscientious ones will be bearing much more than their share of the burden. The only just expectation is that every man give just as much as he can afford and no more. Seniors owe this duty to their class, and careless postponements of the subscription will unnecessarily complicate the duties of the Treasurer...