Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upperclassmen have some sentiment about breaking an established attachment with the Georgian. The CRIMSON contended, and to date finds no good reason for the withdrawal of that contention, that a disproportionately high weekly rate requiring an absurdly large number of meals to be eaten in the House will work hardship on many students. It pointed particularly to the fact that this financial pressure will bear more severely upon men of moderate means than upon the wealthy. It still thinks that such a situation is in accord neither with the spirit of democracy nor the traditional freedom of the undergraduate...
...contention that a shift from club or fraternity houses to the rooms offered by the House System will work an even greater hardship little need be said. President Lowell has repeatedly pointed out that men are not to be forced to enter the Houses. If it so develops that the atmosphere in the Houses is such to attract men to them, the extinction of the clubs involved will be but another example of the sound principal of survival of the fittest...
...obtained only for the Saturday-to-Monday period, has been replaced; at present the Reading Room is open Sunday; and, more important, books must be returned at that time on-week-ends preceding examinations. There is no reason why the extension of this requirement to Widener should work a hardship on any students; certainly it would be of benefit to most...
...dinners a week. If a man eats less than five "in Hall" he is wasting money for he is charged for the uneaten meal, even as in the Harvard Houses. Five meals a week, instead of 14! Of course, they must all be dinners: but that is a small hardship because the Cambridge undergraduates have no large city ten minutes away, and they must be in their colleges at a comparatively early hour each night...
...particularly unfortunate that this restriction on freedom works more hardship upon some men financially less comfortable than others. This is not only out of line with the Harvard custom which deprecates distinction by wealth, but is wholly antagonistic to the spirit of democracy which is presumed to be the essence of the House Plan...