Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Harvard's football business is turning into a pleasure and undergraduate interest is confining itself to the spectacle and its social accessories is the burden of an article entitled "Notes on Harvard Football," by T. G. Upton '31, appearing in the most recent issue of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine...
...examination into two parts to take place on successive days. For the honor student the plan would give added opportunity to coe vrthe field which from the start seems discouragingly large. For those who are not honor students the two day division would ease and clarify the jumbled burden of the years...
...tropics, showing a cynical but maligned roue (William Powell) gracefully attaching the wife (Doris Kenyon) of a colonial doctor whose headgear alone would almost have been grounds for desertion. Derived from a briefly exhibited drama called Heat Wave, the picture shows its hero bearing the white man's burden with superfluous fortitude and increasing its weight by disguising his nobility with sophomoric sarcasm. Touted as a ladies' man because he once acted as co-respondent in divorce proceedings, he is pestered by the habitues of an insular country club in the Far East. The males suspect...
...period through which the country at large is now passing. Since the Drama School is under no circumstances calculated to be self-supporting, the measure is in line with its established policy. Not wishing to lose any students because of financial difficulties, the School is anxious to impose no burden beyond that normally required for regular college expenses...
Whereas, we, though opposed in principle to letting the burden of this disaster fall upon the shoulders of a few, yet being aware of the crying needs of town, county, and state we do favor the breaking of a precedent for the immediate emergency only by the participation in the relief movement of organizations whose services can most readily be converted into an available source of income...