Word: burden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unquestionably an important and a necessary step. But one class can not bear the burden alone. The Sophomore and Freshman classes must help." 1914 ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMITTEE...
...work, provided the undergraduate student body shows itself truly anxious for the new building. Inasmuch as the final decision of this question will very probably be left to the members of the College, it is extremely urgent that the students show their willingness to share their part of the burden in supporting the project, in purse as well as in spirit. If the undergraduate body will pledge a certain amount of the required sum, it seems very probable that graduates will complete the fund...
...thinks the question over, and then answers that there is no distinctly Harvard literary magazine. Under the present division of the field there are two papers that have more or less claim to literary fame, most of which is tradition, however; and they are struggling alone under a financial burden that saps their energy and threatens their destruction. If numerical circulation may be taken as a criterion of a paper's success, these undergraduate papers come very nearly being failures. As for general interest in their welfare and in their contents, little can be said. It is the usual thing...
...individual traditions. The Forum believed that while the functions of the Illustrated differ from those of the other magazines, personal differences and trivial points in regard to the make-up of a general-literary publication could be over-looked in a wide-spread movement to relieve of their present burden the advertisers and subscribers. The result of this discussion was a resolution asking the publication committee of the Student Council, composed of the presidents of the magazines, to draw up plans for a union of at least two of the papers...
...risks of war decrease, we are asked to pay higher and yet higher rates of insurance. In the fiscal year 1910-11 we paid for the support of our army and navy over 43.3 percent, of our total expenditures, and 24.1 per cent, more for pensions, the burden of past wars--a total of over 440 million dollars--enough to build two hundred Widener libraries. The only possible way to stop this mad race of nations apparently trying only to discover which can bear the greatest burden of taxation, is to end the race. The United States would perform...