Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quota. The Committee gave careful consideration to this suggestion, and while withdrawals were received during the summer as in previous years as the day of registration drew near a number of such withdrawals were canceled because the candidates had received aid from some unexpected source or because the financial burden seemed to have been lifted through gradually improving conditions in individual cases...
...obvious that on these Senior Fellows depends the whole success of the rather ephemeral Society, for on them rests the burden of selecting the first members and of adjusting all the innumerable details of organization and administration. Naturally they will be bombarded by recommendations from all over the country, and it will be a truly Gargantuan task to choose five or six Junior Fellows out of the mass of material available. The Committee will have to place some reliance on course grades and college records in attempting to pare down the number at the outset, but the greatest care must...
...very probable that the large expenditure which the proposed taxes entail would place a heavy burden on the building's aged back. But that its effects would be so disastrous as the President rather plaintively forecasts is a questionable assumption. All the important universities have been forced to make up heavy deficits in the last few years: while the effort has caused them considerable discomfort, none have fallen. Yale, firmly entrenched behind her endowment, doss not cut an impressive figure in violently crying, "Wolf," in the abashed faces of the New Haven tax collectors...
...immediately apparent that such a method throws a considerable burden on the resources of the instructor. No longer is he able to repeat lectures; his methods of instruction must vary according to the changing composition of each class. Yet he establishes, in a way impossible under the lecture system, close contact with the student and with his special needs, whereas the student cannot fail to profit immeasurably from intimate association with authorities and specialists in various directions...
Whether or not opera at the Metropolitan continues the boxholders must go on paying taxes. At last week's meeting they were unwilling to assume more burden. In fighting disbandment, Cornelius Bliss stressed the number of people who would be thrown out of work-about 770. He consented to serve on a committee to impress outsiders with the need for help. Characteristically he took no credit for his efforts; small, popular Soprano Lucrezia Bori was made chairman...