Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Increased registration of fifty percent in seven years has thrown a heavy burden upon many members of the faculty, especially those who direct research. The administrative board is convinced that any restriction on admission must aim to improve the quality of the men admitted rather than attempt to fix a definite number of members of the school...
...speech is not the solution. His proposal to replace the present system with a series of psychological and intelligence quota tests is not plausible for two essential reasons. Not only does his plan verge on the hinterland of idealism and as such is too heavily embellished with the burden of impracticality, but it has the further disadvantage of serving as a tonic for a faltering system which needs a panacea. In scratching the surface, the College Boards, Dr. Little's "humanitarism" scrapes clean of the root of the whole trouble...
...first meeting of the Crimson squad will be held tonight at the Harvard Union at 7 o'clock. Following this meeting tryouts will be held during the next two weeks, as a result of which the six men who are to uphold Harvard's burden of argument will be chosen. The Coolidge Prize of $100 will be awarded to the man doing the best work-in these tryouts, and the Coolidge gold medals will be awarded to each man making the team. The men who are successful will also automatically become members of Delta Sigma Phi, the debating fraternity...
Places on each state the burden of solving its own liquor problem. (The state has the police forces, the courts and all the necessary machinery, while the federal government has few facilities...
Item 5. Places the burden of federal enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment upon people who drink beverages which are not necessaries, but are luxuries. If alcoholic liquor in itself is an evil, it makes the traffic pay for its own eradication...