Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire atmosphere of the set", she concluded, "Is intended to suggest the hard, stern life of the Catskill Dutch, and their isolation from the rest of the world. In its hardship their life resembled that of the Pilgrims, but continued over a much longer period of time. The costumes which were designed by Miss Pauline Hatfield, also reflect this isolation. The women continue to wear as gala dress the clothes which were in style at their marriages, and it has been said that an acute observer can in this way estimate the date of marriage of each...
...colleges and universities are ordered as they are, the only way to assure the fulfilling of assignments is by occasional tests of this disciplinary sort. That is the aim of "hours," recitations and section papers. Indeed as one professor pointed out an additional hour examination may be a hardship now but later it will prove a blessing for just that much work will be done and require only a cursory review in January...
...year before the shortage was well over $20,000. The method by which these conditions have been changed, has been, in the main, an increase in the tuition fee. On account of the established of a loan fund of over $30,000 this increase has not been a hardship to students who have been unable to meet it immediately...
...Hans Nendorf, formerly rubber for the Freshman football squad, and now special trainer for football, track and cross-country, will be available to all men who wish to correct some slight physical defect or hardship. Track and cross-country men needing instruction are expected to come at 4 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons and the football men at 4.30 o'clock on the same days. Other students interested in such classes should apply before the Christmas recess to Mr. Neudorf, Mr. Fradd or to Mr. Geer's office, 6 Wadsworth House...
Even in Boston, it is almost impossible to get a pound of hard coal. To alleviate this hardship, the city government undertook to sell coke, which it had put up in bags by convict labor to lessen the cost. The price, however, of this aid to the poor was five dollars a ton higher than the price of coke sold by private concerns. A few days ago, in North Cambridge and Somerville, several families paid eighteen dollars a ton for an excellent grade of crushed rock, powdered with wet soft coal dust, which an affable stranger offered them in unlimited...