Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breadth of the field which it is required to master is in some respects a handicap. It is necessary to take examinations in Government and Economics as well as the departmental examination in History itself and the more specialized one in a specific field thereof. The result is a burden on the Senior probably greater than in most other divisions. It is not impossible that eventually the Division will see fit to permit the examinations in the related fields to be passed off some time before the close of the Senior year which would bring substantial relief to those enrolled...
...prime object of college athletics is character building, not victory on river or field, and the alumni who demand the scalp of a coach merely because his team fails to win misunderstand the purpose and mission of the coach. This was the burden of a series of heretical utterances by William J. Bingham, director of athletics of Harvard University, in an address before the Beacon Society Saturday night which, anomalous as it may seem, won the enthusiastic approval of representatives of Dartmouth. Amherst, and Yale, who commended the attitude of Director Bingham in the warmest terms. The diners were hardly...
...that is the accumulated property of the American Treasury; that we are discussing a debt which ultimately they owe to the people from whom the U. S. Government borrowed; that, in a sense, we Senators are the indorsees for them, and that if they fail in their promise the burden will fall on the American people...
...outfield, the University will be represented by Captain Todd, who will also assume the burden of clean-up batter, Ellison, a veteran of two Yale games, and Burns, Sophomore sprint star whose batting prowess and speed on the base-paths have won him the lead-off position on the Harvard batting array...
...Titanic disaster aroused the nations to institute an annual patrol from April to July along the northern steamer lanes, whither the icebergs float after they break from their Greenland glaciers. The U. S. took up the burden, many nations sharing the expense. So efficient has been this search for and report of wandering bergs that not a life has been lost since the patrol...