Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant, in his first report, called attention sharply to the problem of the teaching load carried by members of the faculty. The tutorial system, superimposed on the course system, has placed a burden on Harvard professors and instructors which may interfere seriously with the President's aim of studding Harvard's faculty with the most illustrious of American scholars...
...very aptly stated the difficulties of the National Recovery Administration in his twelve points; he does not, however, do any more than state them. It needs no General Johnson to tell us that shortening hours and raising wages are not the same thing as "lightening the employer's burden," and yet these were the characteristic demands of the two large groups represented at his conference. The meeting, as many observers have pointed out, served a real political purpose; it brought together all those who were dissatisfied with the NRA, heard all their pleas, and then assured them that these were...
...undertook the delicate job of gauging investors' appetites for the second serving, of judging how much interest-sauce was necessary to make it palatable, was last week something of a mystery. The official explanation was that Scientific-Farmer Morgenthau had had to bear most of the burden. Certainly he had been aided by good advice either from friends in Wall Street or from his new Mormon assistant, Marriner Stoddard Eccles, who lately came out of Utah (TIME, Jan. 22) with the wisdom of 43 years of age, with economic ideas like those of most New Dealers, and the record...
...History and Literature Department has decided to open the Oral Divisional Examinations of the Juniors and Seniors to the public, we see another vain yearning of the Harvard educator towards Oxford mediaevalism, towards sanctification by tradition at the expense of the student. There is absolutely no question that the burden of publicity is an unnecessary trial to the cultural neophyte. To pass such an oral examination with success would require not only a proper knowledge of the field, but considerable skill in facing an audience with composure. If the candidate is expected to think during his examination, that...
...Roosevelt sent another message to Congress recommending that sugar be made a basic commodity, proposing definite quotas for the various sources of U. S. sugar supply. Restriction would be paid for by a processing tax, but a reduction in the sugar tariff would keep the consumer from bearing the burden. This proposal promised relief not only for an industry that has been sunk in overproduction for a full decade but also for hard-pressed Cuba. The preliminary quotas proposed by the President: U. S. Sugar Beets. . . . . . . . 1,450,000 short tons...