Word: burden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course of a year many young men who are carrying the burden of a diagnosis of athletic or strained heart. Thus far, in the absence of a previously damaged heart due to some inflammatory condition of the valves, I have been unable to confirm the diagnosis of an abnormal heart. My feeling is that much harm is being done by the popular impression that athletics are a frequent cause of heart disease. I have tried to show that in some aspects at least this diagnosis has been based upon incorrect criteria. I find considerable comfort in the vigorous statements...
...team has been doing good work in the Arena and though unable to score against their more powerful opponents, have held them to comparatively low scores. The wings, which have heretofore been the weak points of the Freshman line, have improved a great deal and can now share the burden of the offence with Captain Walker and E. Cabot...
...burden of supplying the country with military aviators will fall on the college undergraduate," said Mr. Amory. "If the United States in the event of war organizes an army of 1,000,000 men at least 10,000 military aviators will be required to supplement it properly. Aviators must be young men in the prime of life and in the best of health, and, furthermore, the successful military aviator must have the equivalent of a college education or at least be on a level intellectually with the average college undergraduate." He pointed out that the French and German aviators...
...they are accepted as regular commissioned officers after their periods of training they receive the rank of first lieutenant. It takes the average man about three months of intensive instruction to learn how to fly and another three months to master the military side of the work. Since the burden of filling the ranks of the aviation corps will fall on college men it is thought that the complete course of training may be divided between two summers...
...course will require hard work and sacrifice. Few things that are valuable or necessary in life are possible without toil and individual privation. The Faculty will be as lenient as possible in allowing men to alter their courses to meet the new demand. But the burden of work must fall upon each...