Word: burden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...afford every one an opportunity to become an active participant. Paying for the war is just as important as fighting it, and all of us can help to pay. We would be untrue to the boys who offered their lives if we failed to shoulder our part of the burden of those who stayed at home." CARTER GLASS, Secretary of the Treasury...
...this burden which the Harvard Mission seeks to take from the shoulders of the undergraduate or graduate student who sets out to be of service overseas. How far the Mission succeeds will depend entirely on conditions in Europe. But that it will obtain openings for at least a few Harvard, volunteer workers seems certain. It seems also to be the only available agency hereabouts which is capable of furnishing Harvard, volunteer workers seems certain. It seems also to be the only available agency hereabouts which is capable of furnishing Harvard men with well thought out information on this subject...
...part of the people which would be proper in any sense of the word. The men returning from abroad or some home camp have no desire to parade as heroes. They all made a distinct sacrifice upon entering the service. They now want to be relieved of this burden. If the people of this country keep their uniformed men from the necessity of hunting jobs and provide them with a means of beginning civilian life without handicaps, they will honor them as no formal war memorial could. As soon as we know definitely that the last drop of American blood...
Those of us who are not Juniors are out of it, and sighs will burden the breeze as it wafts the languorous strains of the "shimmie" tunes from the Union to Sophomore ears. How to make our visitors realize that the Junior Class is not the only class in Harvard! But those of us who belong to the favored fold proudly ignore such envious murmuring. Tonight the Class of 1920 reviews its past splendor and its future glory, and it is well satisfied with its own company...
...urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard as a burden to get rid of, but in which he would discern an opportunity for important service,-and the book or article would be set aside, and the job that was immediately necessary performed in its stead. Harvard was invariably the gainer by his self-sacrifice. No university can go on without...