Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Edward Browne Hunt, Ernest Jackson, Lawrence Jacob, Benjamin Newhall Johnson, Edward Francis Johnson, Joseph French Johnson, Arthur Mason Jones, Walter Kessler, Philip Coombs Knapp, Nathan Ryno Smith Lanier, Rosewell Bigelow Lawrence, John Clarence Lee, Lucius Nathan Littauer, Warren Plimpton Lombard, Augustus Peabody Loring, Clinton William Lucas, Frederic Lutz, Henry Burden McDowell, Robert Dean McFaden, Henry White Mason, Julian Augustus Mead, James Watts Mercur, William Star Miller, Ogden Mills, Henry Watmough Montague, Charles Moore, Edward Cook Moore, John Holmes Morrison, Edwin Wilson Morse, Herbert Floyd Willis Morse, John Archibald Murray, George William Nash, Henry Sylvester Nash, Samuel Newell Nelson, Edgar Hamilton...
...been spread over too great a part of the day. The afternoon and evening give plenty of time for the whole programme. The function of host is a difficult one at best, especially to students who have had but little practice. It would be wise, therefore, to make the burden of entertainment as light as possible by bringing the exercises into the latter half of the day. This change would cause the good things of the day to occur in such rapid succession that no visitor would have time to grow weary. Furthermore, ladies do not like to prepare their...
...might also result in a more serious loss, namely, in that of the cooks, who are too good to be rashly parted with. To keep the Hall open, and to charge all expenses on those who boarded in it during the recess would be putting too heavy a burden upon those who remained. The weekly pay-roll is about $1,600, and at least three hundred members are required to meet running expenses. In the light of these facts it appears that the plan adopted is after all the quickest in operation, and at the same time the "easiest...
...specimen with which I have daily intercourse would furnish a careful student of human nature with a fund of amusement and instruction that would be inexhaustible. I ask you, my reader, to picture to yourself a man whose sole care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded, yet one would suppose that a tolerably well-brought-up mule would know that a day in January with the wind blowing at the rate of fifty...
...study of Triangles and Hyperbolae in favor of English studies which are indispensable to the education of even moderately informed persons. As required studies have been taken from the other classes, they have been imposed upon the all-suffering Freshmen, until with Mechanics and four branches of Mathematics their burden has become almost too much for the most enduring. Very many have been conditioned every year in studies which they could not master without help, and still more have been driven to the expensive alternative of tutoring. Thus the Freshmen, with the exception of the few mathematical minds among them...