Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group rating or because they have no desire to be candidates. Further, there are numerous instances of men who have become candidates for honors after period of one or two years of ineligibility. If they had been denied tutorial work during this period it would have greatly increased the burden of both tutor and tutee when they did become candidates. It is also likely that the independent work with a tutor very often inspires a student with greater interest in his field and gives him an impetus to try for honors. A group rating, moreover, below group four does...
Year after year successive Presidents of the U. S. turned a deaf ear-until Depression's 1933. Then with statesmen fully alive to the burden, political and military, of U. S. responsibility for 7,083 islands half a world away, with U. S. sugar producers equally dismayed by the flood of duty-free sugar coming thence, Congress at last offered the Philippines their freedom, after a ten-year trial period. Out from under the first offer Philippine politicians managed to wriggle. When it was renewed last spring, and served up on a silver platter by Franklin Roosevelt himself...
...first ten months of 1934. announced FER Administrator Harry Hopkins last week. States and communities spent $323,890,560 for relief-28.3%, more than in the same period in 1933. Simultaneously Administrator Hopkins moved to shift a still bigger share of the relief burden to their shoulders. Beginning Feb. 1, all "unemployables" will be transferred from Federal to State and community relief rolls...
...Hopkins definition of unemployables is "all chronic dependents," including the aged, the sick, the crippled, the insane, widows. They constitute about 20%, of the 19,000,000 persons now on relief. But last week's move will not lighten the Federal burden by 20%. because many a state and city is already caring for its unemployables...
...long a time have worthy students of scholarly ability been forced to carry a financial burden that has seriously affected their scholastic work and curtailed their participation in extra-curricula and social life within the University. The administration has recognized that such students should be given great security and cased of a burden that at times has threatened to end their college career. Such a stop is commendable. The only danger lies in the fact that a high pre-college record is not always indicative of ability to do creative thinking and scholarly research. If the purpose of the scholarships...