Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Text Book Loan Library, for the benefit of which the book drive is being made, has been instituted very recently by the Phillips Brooks House. To the many students in the college for whom the expense of buying new books would be too great a burden, the Loan Library offers ready aid. At a charge of only five cents per volume, books used in connection with practically every course offered by the various departments may be procured, the borrower having exclusive use of the book during the whole college year. This year some 1600 books are in use. The supply...
...Arlington Cemetery the President delivered a Memorial Day speech, trenchantly outlined a novel theory concerning world peace: "If we can make the circumstances of the people easy, if we can relieve them of the burden of heavy taxation, we shall have contributed to that contentment and peace of mind which will go far to render them immune from any envious inclination toward other countries." Further, he sagely encouraged Europe toward disarmament...
...Holy Cross, either Dobbins or Fons will be on the mound. Fons, though only a Freshman, has comfortably filled the shoes left vacant by the graduation into professional baseball of Carroll, and has borne the major pitching burden for the Crusaders since the injury of Davidson early in the season. His latest triumph was registered at the expense of the strong Boston College nine...
...more straightened adversaries. Yet apart from sedistic impulses, there are other reasons which put the weight of the war upon the civilized nation. It must carry, often overseas, always into wilderness, food; ammunitions and other trappings of a specialized war machine, the usual items of the "white man's burden"; while the unspecialized natives wage their war on a rather homeless homeland by the simple process of gathering, attacking, striking camp, and dispersing like deer...
Students of civilization whose social studies have begun with biology as a point of departure have lately elaborated with an alluring richness of detail the theory of the burden of civilization. It is suggested that among civilized peoples each succeeding generation elaborates the social environment, increases the number of demands made upon the members of society, and complicates generally the problem of living and working. With the biological strength of the race at a standstill or on the decline while the burdens it must carry are on the increase, the time is likely to come in the life history...