Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Burden Sanderson Haldane, mother of onetime (1912-15) Lord High Chancellor Haldane of Britain, became 100 years old, published memoirs in The Spectator. She told of her early edu cation, how she was taught to read when 3, how "the multiplication table and French verbs were repeated whilst holding a backboard* and with our feet in the stocks,* which were made by the joiner. . . . When just 8 or 10 years of age, I read through Voltaire's history of Louis XIV and Peter the Great, and looked up all the French words I did not know...
...attends a citizen's military training camp in the 2nd corps area this summer will be compelled to attend religious services of some denomination unless he can present a written request from his parents or guardian that he be excused. Army officials may, as they state, wish the burden of avoiding religious training to fall upon the individual, but in making this ruling, they have ignored the fact that in civilian life it always does a condition which military life in no way conceivably alters. They have succeeded only in adding to present burdens and with new lengths...
...less and less adapted to its environment. Prestige and responsibility is being transferred to the graduate schools, while the college is becoming a secondary institution. It performs the function of a "background", at best a mere beginning. To the average student the cost of this preparation is a heavy burden,--four valuable years to be spent in beginning...
...must not be thought that this degree will become the equivalent of an M.A. At present 21 courses are required for a Master's degree. It would be impossible for a four year student to carry such a burden without losing the benefit of all other college activities. The requirements for this Bachelor's degree, cum laude, would be as at present only 17 courses, and would put no extra strain on the student. There could be no pretension that the two degrees were equivalent...
...that. "After we have got rid of the ape and the tiger we shall have to dispose of the donkey, a much more intractable animal." It is reassuring to find the Liberal Club trying to put spirit and glorified common sense into the head of this domestic brute. The burden of the complaint is the submissiveness of the creature. I once heard a wise man say that what struck you, as you compared the American student with the European student, was the "docility of the American student. Seeming to attack the system, whether of undergraduate credits or doctor's theses...