Word: burden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...grammar school boy lies the burden of proof to show why he should go on to high school, and on the high school boy lies much more heavily the burden of proof to show why he should go on to college. But 90 per cent of the private school boys go to college as a matter of course, whether they are intellectually negligible or not. All they need is an allowance and a passing mark in the entrance examinations. And so, serious and trivial, stupid and bright, they all herd in together. Of course they will not stand as high...
...Loan Library provides books to students to whom the purchase of text-books is a considerable financial burden. At present 406 of the 1500 books are being so used. But the library is far from complete. Books are needed especially in Mathematics, Engineering, History, Government, Economics, and Fine Arts...
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...Burden, C. G., architecture...
...great obstacle, next to that pressure of engagements which seems to burden all college men, is lack of confidence in one's own abilities. "I've never run a boys' club; I don't think I could do it" is the pathetic, hesitating complaint. And although no one denies that the ability to handle a boys' club is a faculty worth cultivating, the natural fear of facing singlehanded a whole troop of noisy, critical, sarcastically impudent youngsters is not pleasant when viewed from the comfort of an arm-chair. However, victories are not won in arm-chairs; and the test...