Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class of '59, many students and Faculty members at the University began to exchange disgruntled I-told-you-so's. Back in the spring of 1954, when the Faculty was hotly debating the proposal to establish Advanced Standing, these people had warned that the plan would burden the College with teenagers who were exceedingly intelligent but frightfully immature. Hearing of the 13-year-old freshman, the skeptics now recalled their predictions and asserted that the Yard was becoming a play pen for prodigies...
...that the Yardling who works nine hours a week has a dining hall or dormitory job to render him a physical wreck without the assistance of squash or ice skating. When three hour-long exercise sessions, plus the requisite walking, showering, and dressing, are added to his schedule, the burden becomes excessive...
...years past, when less than a hundred freshmen resorted to part time employment, this burden could be overlooked. But with employment facilities expanded, some 300 Yardlings would now be affected by a change in policy. This number alone is too large to ignore. Last Monday the Student Council, after extensive interviews with tired freshmen, recommended to the Undergraduate Athletic Council that if even one hour were dropped from a job-holder's P.T. requirement, his burden would be eased...
...measure, the Council officially expressed an opinion that physical condition of the student working nine hours or more per week would not suffer from the omission of one hour of exercise. The group also argued that legal reduction of PT would eliminate illegal cutting practices, and decrease the extra burden on students who must work...
...tumult and the shouting have died, Kipling rises from his grave to confront the world with neither a hum ble nor a notably contrite heart. He had the courage to hate -a healthy hate of all those who sneered at the seriousness of the white man's burden, who denigrated duty, honor, country. Americans, who in the past decade have had to accept concern for an area far greater than that ever ruled by the British Empire, may today better understand Rudyard Kipling -"this literary man," as Biographer Carrington puts it, "[who asserted] that literary men were...