Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professors end up carrying the burden, struggling with ways to tame the monster class. When a popular course is only offered every other year, class size explodes in order to accommodate the crowd. Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz's course, Historical Study B-61, "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice," attracted so many students that a restricting lottery was necessary. But when Horwitz attempted to remedy the evil by offering to teach his course every year, the Core office refused. Unwilling to face the hellish lottery process again, he reveals to FM he will...
...first year she taught the course, she invited everyone to turn in their papers at her home where she served milk and cookies. At the time, it seemed like a good idea for a small course, but hundreds of ravenous college students descending on one house is a big burden for any cookie jar. "I guess they were all hungry because the food disappeared," Tatar remembers...
...seems as if the burden of political action has fallen on the shoulders of groups like the Institute of Politics (IOP) and the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA...
This increases the burden on housing advocates like...
When I met him, McCain had been softened up by lunch with constituents in the Senate dining room. But he steered every question back to Bosnia. The closest we got was the burden of sitting in judgment. Here's a man running for President; every minute of airtime is worth a hundred town-hall meetings. But what was he saying? "Credibility is more important than exposure." He mentioned he'd had "about a thousand requests," including Sam and Cokie waving madly in Statuary Hall after the State of the Union, asking him to come on their show. They didn...