Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burden of the last year with Divisionals, Orals, a Thesis, and numerous hour examinations is a difficult one to carry successfully. The present change will enable a student to devote himself more attentively to the problems which are his chief concern, while restricting those academic obligations which are not essential. It is true that a course reduction will place a greater emphasis upon the Tutorial System, but this kind of instruction has been found to be increasingly satisfactory...
...Honor student. It is only natural to suspect that he will do better work on this subject if he can, in his senior year, devote himself solely to that and to his courses. But reforms of such a large nature should come gradually for they represent a tremendous burden upon the Tutorial System and one to which it must accustom itself by slow degrees...
...imposed upon all departments of the university. Classes given every year will for a time be offered only in alternate years; small class sections will be combined to form larger ones: and the lower instructing staff will be slightly decreased. Thus, though the permanent faculty may escape, the burden will fall upon a few young instructors and upon the student body, which will be offered a less ambitious program of instruction...
...often used to mean is a tax on everything bought & sold, or a tax on everything with certain specified exceptions. Essentially the jdea of a sales tax is to put on thousands of articles so small a tax that no one will notice it, rather than to load the burden on a few articles or on a few sources such as personal income...
...advocacy of such a levy came from Publisher William Randolph Hearst who sent a large Congressional delegation to study Canada's 4% sales tax. Against a sales tax the ordinary U. S. politician, chiefly interested in people as voters, cries out on the ground that: 1) it would burden the poor man proportionally more than the rich man; 2) it would be costly to collect; 3) no tradition for it exists in the U. S. Chief objectors to a sales tax have been the Democratic leaders now in control of the House...