Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discuss the project of a new gymnasium. According to reports five or six hundred members of the college attended the meeting, and great interest was taken. The opinion of Prof. Richards - and his opinion seems to have been shared by the students - was that it was too great a burden upon the students and unjust to parents and guardians that so large an expense should be borne by the students. It was resolved that this canvass should be made of the alumni of the college to see if they would be able to respond liberally in subscriptions...
...Memorial dining-hall. These were the men who moved about the yard Tuesday afternoon rather slowly and aimlessly, watching the trunks and bags roll out of the yard and catching glimpses of well-filled horsecars leaving Harvard Square, and finally climbing to their rooms with a feeling, the whole burden of which is contained in these two familiar words, "Left behind...
...that the true value of his work is due to his experience and the magnifying power of the lenses which he uses. The objective, or system of lenses nearest the object, and ocular or system nearest the eye, are the two parts upon which this magnifying power depends, the burden of the work always being put upon the objective...
...allowed to rest. Considerable feeling of a rather sanguinary tinge has already been aroused. As we do not wish to incur the expense of defensive armor, we hail this new expression of confidence in the religious training of Harvard as calculated to relieve us of our holy burden and to carry consternation into the camp of the enemy. The voice from Maine is one of truth, and it explains no double-distilled fancy, no abstract principle of theoretical freedom, but simple unadorned and convincing facts. What of the fact that the angel of our Eden forbids those residing without prayer...
...Porter's resignation was a great surprise to all; not because it was not to be expected in the near future, but because it has come with so little warning, just at this time. Probably no one will feel that his reasons for asking to be relieved of his burden some duties are not of the best, but on every hand regret is expressed that it is necessary that he should retire from the active government of the college. He is the eleventh president of the college, and the terms of only three, president Pierson, 1701-7, president Andrew...