Word: burden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trip to New Haven-money well spent. However, we have always disbelieved in the practice of supporting teams by subscriptions, and it certainly seems as though the expenses should be kept within the receipts, exclusive of subscriptions. They are at best an uncertain form of income and their burden is unequally and unfairly distributed. There are many ways in which the receipts from the major sports could be increased, and the CRIMSON again repeats that it believes the system of collecting subscriptions should be discontinued...
Possessed of a fine scholarly feeling, and an acute literary appreciation, in spite of a burden of administrative work which would have furnished ample employment for most men, he still found time for activity both as author and as editor. Only the day before his death a volume of fifteen essays and addresses was received by his friends, and a translation of the treatise of Vitruvius on ancient architecture was rapidly nearing completion, most of which had been read to a small circle of his friends, for their criticism and to their delight...
Dancing girls--H. C. Clark '11, F. M. Burnham '11, F. W. Gilbert '11, R. W. Tilney '10, G. R. Harding '11, R. Haydock '10, J. Tyler '10, C. G. Burden...
...more practical form of charity than the Phillips Brooks House clothing collection is open to the members of our University community. None, perhaps, combines greater potential benefits to the recipients with less burden to the givers. Discarded clothing has a minimum value when it hangs neglected in a closet; yet in the possession of some needy person it may well give more service than its original owner received...
...fitting that the distribution of articles received in this way should be restricted almost wholly to this vicinity. There is frequent complaint that Harvard is an economic burden to Cambridge, but the burden may be somewhat lightened if the University through Phillips Brooks House is able to make substantial additions to the relief of the poor who otherwise would fall to the care of the municipality...