Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will occur to many that the increase will work hardship to students who have difficulty in "finding themselves" when they first come to college, but who under the old requirement were able barely to "get by" as Freshmen and to make up their shortcomings later. But as a matter of fact, one-half of the men who now receive the minimum of two C's and a D the first year, fail before the middle of the succeeding year, and might better have been dropped at once; while most of the others, under the necessity of a higher standard, could...
...Empress Zita of Austro-Hungary is reported to be living near Vienna in indigent circumstances. Her entire revenue is something less than $5,000, derived principally from the sale of wine from the Imperial cellars. Contrasted with the magnificence of the Habsburg Court, her impecuniosity is a greater hardship than it would be to an ordinary person, especially as she has five children to support...
...extension of "Quarter Day" is admittedly an experiment. Not to mention the extra work entailed for the College Office, the Administrative Board itself is naturally under some hardship in remaining in Cambridge for several extra days when the rest of the College world has left for the vacation. Whether the experiment is successful enough to become a fixture depends largely upon the cooperation of the undergraduates. Those who do not go their half of the way by leaving their summer addresses cannot, if "ill luck attend them", expect to have redress and will only contribute to the failure...
...transformed into sound, for the benefit of the blind in whom the light nerves are dead. The professor is a director of a hospital for 300 patients, supported by the Soviet government, but is handicapped by lack of funds, equipment and personnel. His work is done in poverty and hardship...
...dreams of Columbus and the Cabots, of Gilbert and Hudson, thwarted by the inconvenient location of America, are likely to be fulfilled by the modern ingenuity which finds land no obstacle to rapid trasportation. The "Northwest Passage", which lured countless mariners to peril and hardship, may now be opened by the persistent navigators...