Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the attack of onetime Chancellor Snowden did not even draw a reply last week from the Cabinet Bench. The Government's attitude toward the coal strike, and consequent extra loading of the taxpayer, was pontifically voiced by Chancellor Churchill as follows: "Our role is to apportion the burden, not the blame...
With the "Boggar's Opera", "The Second Part" and other of John Grays' works W. A. Burden '27, has loaned to the exhibition a splendid group of Gayana. There are copies of "Achilles, an Opera". "The Distressed Wife", and "Two Epistles", as well as a number of Byron's first editions loaned by F.V. Field '27, and which include "Don Juan", "Manfred", and "Maseppa". "The Prisoner of Chillon" and a very interesting Boston edition of "The Giaour", have been added by John Potter '30, and J.S.B. Archer '30, respectively...
...grateful for the cooperation of the Student Council, the Crimson, and the students in Harvard College generally while I have been in the Dean's Office. It will be, of course, a great relief to shift the burden and serve Harvard in the line for a while instead of on the staff." C. N. Greenough...
Following the implication of Dr. Angell's remarks to their conclusion, part of the burden of the cost of bettering education must fall upon the parents of students. It is they upon whom increase of tuition would fall. A possible expedient for enlisting their support might be the sliding system of tuition now in existence at Kent School where no boy is excluded because of parental inability to support him, where several parents pay as much as twice the tuition fee, and where the average fee is well over that the school sets as a standard. Objection to this scheme...
...Such action might produce a response from persons who will presumably benefit from the college education of their progeny in addition to that from the alumni who have already benefitted. It would at least be a gesture toward a more direct and businesslike distribution of a university's financial burden...