Word: hardships
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Roger S. Kuhn, Council treasurer, who wrote the leiter for the group, pointed out that regulations ordinarily prohibit granting of extensions to individual undergraduates. He asked that Perry, if he could not postpone the due-date for all men, grant extension liberally in cases of hardship...
...realize," said Kuhn, "that cases of real hardship under this rule are rare, especially if administered with due leniency. But this year particularly, when waiting lines are longer than ever, many students are delayed in opening checking accounts in Cambridge, and many do not come with sufficient ready funds to meet this bill...
...something else to present kinds and degrees of hardship, violence, cruelty and injustice which Dana never recorded. There are no scenes of impressment in the book, nor any of murder. There is only a murmur of mutiny, which the captain quells by reasonableness, not violence. The captain is not interested in breaking his own speed record, regardless of the well-being of his men. When a case of scurvy develops, he gets more fresh food as soon...
...places like Davis Inlet and Northwest River. There, in good seasons, they barter their prized Labrador mink and fox pelts; in bad seasons, pick up their Government dole. Only the Indians wage a battle for existence in the virtually unmapped, unknown interior, and they are losing. Where rigor and hardship have failed to decimate them, intermarriage and the ills brought by the white man have succeeded...
...poor without the means of hiding your poverty. Do you believe you could bear that patiently? . . . I want in all cases to do right; and most particularly so, in all cases with women. . . . My opinion is, that you had better not do it. You have not been accustomed to hardship, and it may be more severe than you now immagine. . . . If . . . further acquaintance would contribute nothing to your happiness, I am sure it would not to mine...