Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read and agreed with your editorial are in many cases the same ones who, upon reading in the newspaper about racism, still look over their shoulders to see who its talking about. Your editorial, with all its liberal intentions, would have Olympian Harvard take up the black man's burden without really knowing what it's all about. Charles Jordan Managing Editor The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs
...after Paleontologist Colbert's identification, the burden is on them to explain how a fresh-water amphibian swam through hundreds of miles of saltwater ocean to reach Antarctica and die at the bottom of a stream only 325 miles from the South Pole...
...more important, the decisions were also the most inequitable possible, since they place the burden of conscription almost solely on those two college groups. It is this inequity that the Harvard Departments--on their own initiative--should work to lessen...
...even larger share of the war's burden is, thus, about to be shifted onto Negroes. The ghetto will be directly hit by the curtailing of federal programs, but the unemployment resulting from a slowdown of the economy may have an even greater impact. Negroes have always been the first to be laid off as firms react to a decelerating economy, and it is probable that the number laid off will peak sometime during the summer. If the President and Congress were trying to build riot potential, their timing could scarcely have been better...
...freshman scholarship budget was increased to $850,000 for next year. The increase, from under $800,000 last year, was authorized to offset among other things, the expected reduction in National Merit Scholarships, which have always lightened Harvard's scholarship burden...