Word: hardships
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...side demanded $200 or more, the social division would not suffer under the necessary Union tax. An analogy was drawn between the Union and the Library; the fact that they were of equal importance to a man, and that to charge admission to the Library would be a grave hardship to men who worked and read there but yet they would willingly put up with...
Before it becomes too late to make the necessary adjustments, the matter of lengthening the Christmas recess should be considered by the University. The present custom of allowing eleven days works a hardship upon men whose homes are in the South and West. And yet although more men come to Harvard from a distance than to any other eastern college, they are allowed the shortest of Christmas vacations. Students at Yale, Princeton, and Cornell have from five to eight days more recess than the University allows...
First thought may prophesy unpopularity for earlier classes, but college men are not the "molly-coddles" that popular action would have the world believe. An hour taken from the middle of a precious afternoon and placed before the "nine o'clock" would mean no hardship. On the contrary, such a change would put the academic and the athletic each in their proper spheres, and would make an arrangement of the college day much more logical and much more generally beneficial than that now existent...
...course, membership in a battalion should be made purely voluntary, since Harvard has always stood for as much freedom as possible. If it were compulsory, men would regard it as a hardship and would not take it up with the en- thusiasm necessary for the success of any enterprise...
...Christmas holidays this year extend from December 23 to January 2, inclusive, or from a Wednesday to the following Monday a week. This means that the undergraduates will be compelled to attend classes the Monday and Tuesday preceeding Christmas Eve. You seem to feel that this is not a hardship since we are not compelled to return until January...