Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without question the growth and vigor of the Department has been due primarily to the zeal and forward-looking optimism of two men--Professors Sorokin and Zimmerman. It shows an unhealthy condition in any department to have two men carrying by far the major burden of departmental responsibility and routine, as well as a great teaching load. One senior member has shown for several years an astonishing disregard of the best interests of this department. There can be no excuse whatsoever for a "gang your own way" attitude, with all that it implies about neglect of departmental duties, ragged lecturing...
More reassurance came when men took pencil & paper and found that even a 35% or 40% tax on undivided profits would not in itself burden corporations so much that they would be unable to build up reserves for emergencies. An easy example: a corporation clears $1,000,000 a year. Some $160,000 now goes to the Federal Government in corporation taxes. If $500,000 is declared in dividends $340,000 remains for surplus. Under an undivided profits tax, the corporation might declare the same dividends with the result that it would have to pay 35% on the remaining...
Latest additions to the roster are Robert H. Waldinger '36 and Louis B. Carr '37, who reported from hockey last week. The former will help carry the burden behind the plate, while Carr, a week hitter, but fast and strong armed, may be very much in the battle for the shortstop...
...proper choice of a field of concentration had been made in the first place. When the present Freshman Adviser system, with its absolute incapacity to guide the undecided student along the paths most advantageous to him, has been overhauled and brought up to the pace of Harvard progress, the burden of such last-minute admittances will be some extent lessened...
...another, would to some degree be mitigated. If the Freshman were allowed to select his field of concentration in January instead of in the spring, he could find in his tutorial work from February to May an interesting purgatory. The work should by no means be made a burden because so many Freshmen carry five subjects as it is and the tutors themselves are already well occupied. A few books covering the field in a cursory manner would at least give the Freshman a fairly accurate picture of what his chosen subject was like before he plunged into...