Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began what was now ended. Pouncing with zeal on the debris, each of the 5,000 Comrades picked up as big a chunk of stone as he could carry, ran panting and puffing with it as fast as he could to the brink of the wimpling Moskva, plumped his burden in, watched exultingly while it sanka fitting deathday tribute to LENIN...
...hesitation about criticizing the department in this case, because the announcement was patently a result of a series of unfortunate events; but the fact remains that there is no other course which covers this period, and over half the students enrolled in it are seniors. This lays a double burden on them which is hardly welcome with honor theses due in March and Divisionals the first of May. It means finishing the century independently (for one needs Tutorial conferences for review) and finding an additional course, which is more than likely to be an enforced luxury...
...article entitled "Probation--A Benefit or Burden" appearing in the current number of the H. A. A. News and reprinted in today's CRIMSON, Mr. H. W. Clark attempts to prove that probation is an institution which has no place as a disciplinary or scholastic measure in an "intellectual institution" such as Harvard. The arguments which Mr. Clark adduces to make his point are numerous, but his most important indictments of probation are (1) that it has the effect of inculcating laziness in the average student athlete by fixing a minimum standard above which there is no incentive...
...faculty is willing to assume a considerable burden of extra work in order to interest more students in honors work. The price of admission to these remarkable opportunities is within reach; a general average of 75 percent for the first two-years and an average of 80 percent in the three selected courses at the end of the senior year. The advantages include graduation with honors, specialization, individual guidance and conference work, a startling and progressive move in modern education. --Amherst Student...
...first reason ascribed for intervention was humanitarianism of a Whitman's-burden nature; conditions in Haiti were bad; "anarchy, savagery and repression" prevailed, and troops went in to clean up. Second, the State Department had been pressed not only to protect American interests already in Haiti but to allow these interests--notably the National City Bank--to, extend their activities. Last, we did not want any foreign power intervening in a land that was so near the Panama Canal; the Monroe Doctrine, as it had been reedited, covered any action on the part of a foreign country to protect...