Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reduction of unessentials and further economy will lessen the taxpayers' burden" declares Mr. Hoover. The establishment of foreign credit will tend to prevent over-production,-a menace to our present industrial situation. Development of great waterways, the admission of ocean liners into the Great Lakes, adjustment of our transportation system all of these will lead to greater commercial unity and better business conditions. To stimulate business through a reorganization of the Department of Commerce is a much-needed advance in governmental efficiency...
...lesser degree on its athletic prowess. A college is mistaken if it assumes that the glamor of gridiron victories will offset a mediocre scholastic standard. Intercollegiate athletics, however, are of such importance that, if it is an error to carry them to excess. It is also a fault to burden them unnecessarily with overfine restrictions. The rule, which makes ineligible for one year students transferring from some other institution, is just and fair, for it prevents men, who may not be able to pass the entrance requirements, from coming to Harvard merely to gain fame as athletes...
...stories provide in narrative warmth what they lack in momentum. We applaud Mr. Morrison's "The Point of the Joke." Freshly conceived, acutely observant, on speaking terms with earth and eccentricity, the story steps with an easy twinkle. But "Old Dawson's Jumping-Off Place," by Mr. Burden, while it contains passages of imaginative glow and dramatic fire, strains plausibility. Even the sub-title, "From an Alaskan Diary", does not entirely persuade us. The "one last, single, long-drawn howl" is too much for us. We receive without accepting. And so of Mr. Whitman's "Shadows of Our Fancy": more...
...result that tutorial work is regarded as an unfortunate obstacle in the road to a degree, instead of a privilege to be made use of in completing one's education. This is mainly because no time is provided to do the large amount of extra work, the greatest burden of which comes in the Senior year, when the student should have the most freedom for independent study...
HARVARD SECOND. MILTON. Guild, l.w. r.w., Pope Palmer, l.c. r.c., Harding Fish, r.c. l.c., Burgess Pratt, r.w. l.w., Mills Davis, c.p. c.p., Clark Burden, p. p., Chase Flint, g. g., Blake...