Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more careful selection of problems would ease the burden of the student and would allow the professor to lecture on Mathematics instead of working over the homework. Thus the course might be made more effective as well as more interesting...
...extra financial burden which the tutorial system causes has been one of the chief impediments to its spread. Harvard's large-scale revision of its educational system to make way for the tutor could hardly be widely imitated by other colleges. Nor should it be, for in such cases a gradual evolution is better than a forced transition. For many colleges, existent fraternity groups provide a special opportunity for gradual experiment and adaption...
...pasture with the blackness of a widow in her weeds. There is the delicate, syncopated tinkle as a Morgan in a red cutter swerves through town. The mountains stare down upon the valleys grown old, and spare, and bleak over night. Young boughs trail their white burden on the road way. In the woods, where the sun falls, snow slides off the needles and drops with a soft thud. A tiny rabbit scurries off on hastily remembered business and a grouse whirrs up into the blue. The world is quiet, and tranquil, and fair to see. The world...
...Vagabond all life is one great Reading Period in which to indulge his wayward fancies. Untrammeled by the ordinary necessities which hamper men he can lead the pleasant life of the dilettante. For celibacy and his extra-curricular affiliation with the University render him exempt from the cares which burden his fellows...
...gifted George Gershwin. Brother Ira, who with Brother George recently made an excursion into the cinema (see p. 19), has packed the lyrics full of foolishness and funny rhymes. Handsome William Gaxton and Lois Moran of the films, looking but not dancing like Marilyn Miller, carry the burden of the story on cheerful shoulders. And that most despondent of comedians, Victor Moore, is made Vice President...