Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Placed wisely, perhaps, in a period of little activity, is the peculiar burden imposed at this time on inventive members of the Junior Class, and their less witty and more unfortunate mates. It is a task that takes little time in execution, it is true, but being a unique and significant event in the educational molding of a man, it deserves and demands long hours of cerebration. For it is often the one time that any literary production of the author appears in print. It is the single monument of his pictorial career, and on this attempt he triumphs...
Taxation. Describing the changes wrought in his time upon the 18 branches of New York's government, Governor Smith began with the Tax Department. A major political charge against him had been "the increased burden of taxation." He stated the decade's tax history as follows: a) an income tax was the only new tax imposed, to replace the excise tax killed by Prohibition; b) the income tax was now so reduced that a man who paid $26 on $5,000 in 1919, paid $7 on $5,000 in 1927; c) revenue from automobile taxes had swelled from...
President Hopkins own college refused to give his plan a try out and other Eastern colleges, though lending a polite ear, also declined to commit themselves. It has thus remained for the pioneer West to assume the burden of reform. Michigan, press reports state, will put the system into effect only gradually, and is evidently receiving little encouragement from the other Western colleges...
...been pointed out that the Reading Periods constitute a rest for tutors as well as instructors. Professor Tatlock's plan of a previous tutorial vacation would obviate this objection. And even without that provision an optional conference with one's tutor would not burden him with even half the usual labor of the routine months. He would still enjoy a comparatively free time for research. The wary will recommend that the student, about to enter an ordeal of fire, be allowed at least a certain sanctuary where he may find, not necessarily reenforcements, but encouragement and warning. As the plan...
...likely to be hard pressed for time to do so. His whole existence becomes merged in rowing his mood, conversation, and every thought are dominated by it. Hence, no doubt, the socalled "vacant" expression said to characterise the rowing man when in the lecture room. He bears a great burden, for as he will tell you, on his back, or rather on his blades, he carries the college prestige...