Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former of these doubts. One does not need in these days to argue that it is a good thing to go to college. The average American youth and his average parents have come to feel that college is an indispensable part of the preparation for life, or that the burden of proof rests upon him who would argue against it rather than upon him who would argue for it. But just what benefit should be expected it is not easy to say, because so much is expected. Similarly the average college graduate scarcely knows how to say just what...
...With ten dollars in my pocket, with a change in the weather which permitted bicycle riding, and with the receipt of a check for evening school work, the financial burden of four years suddenly be- came light, and I was able to enter the activities of the last few months with perfect freedom...
...will have to get used sometime to working under the eye of an employer. The purpose of an Honor System should not be to nurse along incompetents or to make it pleasant and attractive for writing, but it is a gentleman's agreement which lifts a distasteful and annoying burden from the shoulders of members of the faculty and which treats students like gentlemen...
...Text Book Loan Library was organized several years ago by the Phillips Brooks House Association to enable those men who find the financial burden of buying the numerous text books required for courses in the University too heavy. At a cost of 25 cents, any student may take out a book in the fall and use it for the entire college year. On returning it in the spring he will get 20 cents back again...
...which case there is, of course, a prescribed program to be pursued. There are, as a rule, about 20 or so students in each course which allows plenty of individual contact with the professors. In France, we have no instructors, as you have here, but put all the burden of conducting the course on the shoulders of the professor...