Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sources at the Daily Princetonian, the student newspaper, explained yesterday that the proposal, which originated with Edward D. Sullivan '36, dean of the college, is intended to add greater flexibility to the Princeton undergraduate program while reducing the burden of five required courses a year. The new plan will serve these purposes better than the pass-fail system because students would be able to drop an audited course at any time...
...Hawaiians lie open to all the blessings of civilization: whisky, syphilis and economic exploitation. By film's end the native nation in only 50 years has withered from 400,000 to less than 150,000 souls, and the parson is forced to assume the white man's burden of guilt and reparation...
Although Brown shies away from sociological insights, he and the two young surfers sometimes seem to regard their journey around the African and Asian perimeters as part of the "white man's burden." Or perhaps they're just ingenuous innocents abroad. They bring surfing to the natives, tolerate the Africans' God-given clumsiness, and develop Moses complexes...
...result has been that the burden of desegregation in the South rests with Negro parents, who must seek to have their children transferred, and with the children themselves, who must every day face the harassment of white classmates...
Because he fails to make a clear distinction between regulation of medical research and regulation of behavioral studies, the Surgeon General places an unnecessary administrative burden on behavioral scientists. Medical experiments require scrupulous control, but it is not obvious that behavioral experiments need comparable regulation. There are many innocuous personality tests and psychological questionnaires which a Soc Rel graduate student must and should learn to administer and interpret. These hardly require intensive supervision...