Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economies and surpluses will be applied toward decreasing the tax burden...
...eating lion it is depicted to be. The allocation of vocational training in business to this new graduate school is the very best thing that could have happened for the College. It is at last free to become truly liberal in its arts and teaching. Its old vocational burden is graciously removed...
...mere external existence of the Commonwealth had been assured through the downfall of Poincare's occupation policy, two internal issues have come to the front, taxation and tariff. The Socialists stand for direct taxation, that is, they believe the producers, rather than the consumers should bear the heavier burden. The Clericals and Democrats, who sided with the socialists while foreign questions were dominant, have naturally, though unfortunately, deserted them and sided with the parties of the right, who, like them, are composed chiefly of traders, industrialists and small capitalists...
...relieve the College of its half-assumed burden of vocational training--that is the true function of the Business School in the University, as it has been of the Law School, the Medical School, the Dental School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The hierarchy of the American educational system is gradually crystallizing; and with wise guidance Harvard College is assuming its own and proper place in that order. It is now free to pursue the high ideal of teaching men "how to live". To Williams and all the other colleges who are still straddling the path...
...service by investigating committees and legal procedure is puerile. And moreover the danger is not what it is pictured to be. The concentrating of vocational preparation for business in a graduate school devoted to that end is a most effective means of relieving the College of the vocational burden it has partly attempted to bear. More than ever before it can become a true center of the teaching of the humanities. Nor will it require the services of the gentlemen on the hill...