Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, Jordan indicated that, as college administrative problems grow more and more complex, some type of merger might become advantageous. As a result of this increasing burden, there has been a growing number of resignations from high college administrative posts, and last month McCall's Magazine stated that this was the compelling reason behind Jordan's recent resignation...
...North Gate, by Gwyn Griffin. A taut little novel that shows Britons at an outlying African desert post trying unsuccessfully to stand up under the white man's burden...
...added the final step in the creation of this new entity by convincing the Congress to pass the new Constitution of Puerto Rico, which made the island an "estado libre asociado." Puerto Ricans now had virtual home rule, protection of the United States, and continued exemption from the burden of federal taxes...
...group as a whole is less able, it is often because alumni are the least realistic about their sons' chances for admission, and burden the Harvard admissions committee with applications which have been filed over the protests of the school's guidance officer. "We try to be good to Harvard," says Wesley G. Spencer at Brown and Nichols, "We're not always successful. There are always some alumni who think they have an inside track with the admissions committee and will apply anyway...
...Social Relations Department, said that "we did not realize the problem until quite recently, and will begin right away to encourage more Faculty members to become advisers. He pointed out that regular professors have "so many demands on their time already that they hesitate to take on the additional burden...