Word: burden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unquestionably an important and a necessary step. But one class can not bear the burden alone. The Sophomore and Freshman classes must help...
...most efficient system, coordination of effort between the Dean's Office, P.B.H., Hygiene Building, and advisers is essential. In formation about students should be pooled, and the confusion engendered by so many agencies eliminated by full cooperation and understanding. In view of the burden which Dean Leighton carries, the wisdom of appointing an assistant to handle only advisory matters is worth considering. Such a man, who must have plenty of time and interest, would perform general secretarial duties, such as correlating and distributing the data prepared by the various college agencies...
...primed with Government money. Spending theoreticians like the Federal Reserve's Marriner Eccles would have liked to see the full force of the spending concentrated on industry rather than scattered between producers and consumers and an important Eccles corollary would have been a temporary lifting of the tax burden to help business help itself (see p. 18). At any rate, Federal spending, according to Mr. Roosevelt, who "planned it that way," produced one fairly good business year, 1936. In 1938, more than 11,000,000 men are again out of work and industrial indices are once more...
...does not plan to appoint enough new tutors to meet the demands of Plan A, and thus the men who remain will be greatly overburdened. Certainly it will be worthwhile, at least as a temporary measure. to enlist full professors as well as associates and assistants, thus spreading the burden of tutorial duty; and in the future care should be taken to avoid another sudden exodus from the ranks of any one department...
...reach of patronage-hungry congressmen. What will emerge from the conference is hard to predict, for while the Ramspeck bill which has passed the House would give the postmasters life tenure, the Senate version provides for only an eight year term, and while the former would life the burden of senatorial confirmation, the latter retains this, the "good old way" of patronage appointments. Both bills would be an improvement over the situation existing up until July, 1936, but neither would equal the sweeping reform provided by the president's executive order of that month...