Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represents only a small amount of the yearly expenses incurred by the needy undergraduate. The result of the present method of disbursements has been that a large number of Harvard Club Scholarship recipients have been forced to leave college either because of shortage of funds or because the extra burden of earning the remaining part of their expenses has compelled them to neglect academic work...
...Quite often the contrary is true, as a large majority of such men holding these awards come to Cambridge from southern or western high schools poorly equipped for the unfamiliar methods of study at Harvard. A substantial percentage go on probation at the November Hours and, with the additional burden of financial worries, are sorely pressed for chance to express their full capabilities. When finances become low near the April term-bill they are compelled to spend in searching for work time that should normally be devoted to study. True, five hundred dollars is a large sum for any individual...
...with the tenets of convention but boldly, jauntily attired with a felt hat. The professor's composure was, to put it mildly, upset and without a word of warning he swept down upon the hapless figures and with one expert swipe of his cane divested th head of its burden. It was only then that he discovered the identity of the offender. He was a very important visiting professor. Showing no signs of upset the guardian of maners stamped off leaving the visiting scholar somewhat confused as to the way things are done in America...
...should be given weight. When they state by a vote of 4270 to 358 that public opinion in their communities is definitely opposed to any considerable increase in the national debt, the administration should be wary of imposing further taxes or increasing to any great extent the already heavy burden borne on wearying shoulders. Their overwhelming condemnation of government restriction of crops, government control of private business, and the policy of exempting the new federal agencies from the civil service rules, should be taken as fair evidence of the temper of public opinion. They realize that no government can restrict...
After the speeches Mrs. Roosevelt and 50 women Mobilizers retired to the State dining room. At a luncheon of all the Mobilizers, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who had previously in the day pointed to 14 states as shirkers of their relief burden,* had his chance to say what he thinks, as opposed to what he does. Barked he: "I am thoroughly fed up on cities and states passing the buck to us, when people in their communities need and are not getting relief. And I am beginning to think, of some states now represented in this room...