Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present, too great a burden is frequently placed on the professors of many popular courses through lack of capable assistants. Some men, giving one or more important courses, are further hampered by having charge of a dozen or so tutees. On top of this, is their own research work; encouraged, if it is not demanded, by the college. Often, there are various administrative duties added to all the others. The House Plan, moreover, will not tend to lessen the time that must be devoted to administration. These things, doled out in measure, are ideal; piled on in excesses, they must...
...architecture, are still the prime requisites of a great university. This is no hysterical cry that Harvard is a "hollow shell" of its former educational self, but a plea for constant, earnest effort to improve, enlarge, and maintain the group of men on whose shoulders must chiefly rest the burden of upholding Harvard's name. To no better advantage could the University put Mr. Wyeth's bequest...
...added: "One of the purposes of this conference is to create a psychology in Europe, favorable for the long overdue conference for reduction of land armaments. The huge armies of Europe are a menace to the peace of the world. They are a heavy economic burden, not only because of their overloading of the budgets of struggling nations but also because of a system of conscription which robs a family of its wage earners for a year or more at a period of life when this is serious and constitutes a vast economic loss to the nation. A successful naval...