Word: hardships
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Women Bear Brunt of Hardship...
...upon women that the greatest hardship falls. They are forced as a rule to do night work. They are worked from 7.30 o'clock in the evening to 6 o'clock in the morning with 15 minutes off for dinner at midnight. For them the average wage is from $12 to $17 a week, though they do the same work as the men. After they return from the mills they must do housework and try to snatch some rest during the day while caring for their youngest children under school age. They work up to the last months of pregnancy...
...France a child ten years of age is already accustomed to study, while in America "home work" appears at a comparatively late stage and is likely to be regarded as an extraordinary hardship. As a result many a boy finds himself on the last lap of what is supposed to be his education without ever having learned to study. Regardless of all other factors, there is a pretty constant ratio between attainment and application, and until the American boy begins seriously to exert himself from an earlier age it is not likely that any other reforms will greatly affect...
...seem very impractical to suggest it--and there is no question that the suggestion, if put into effect, would work hardship and injustice in a few individual cases for a short while--but in the long run, we believe that the only practical course Harvard can adopt relative to this evil is to announce to the world that, beginning with the college year 1928-1929, German A and French A will not longer be given as simple elective courses...
...this misfortune, however, the management may well be aware, and in the expectation that future audiences may not be forced to undergo, in order to see the denouement of the play, a similar hardship we turn at last to the play itself...