Word: hardships
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...Fortunate Jovannovicz Bagocius de Bojaczewski will speak on "The Lawrence Strike and the Education of the Foreigner" in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Bagocius is a Lithuanian by birth, but was driven from his native land by the Russian government. After much hardship and adventure he came to America, and has devoted himself to the investigation of the conditions of his countrymen here and to the study of the problems of immigration. While thus engaged, he visited nearly all the Lithuanian colonies in America. He is now an editor of a Boston paper...
...very great amount of eleventh-hour "cramming" that exists in the University and makes easy the path of the professional tutor. In addition to encouraging irregular work and helping to maintain a pernicious tutoring system, the placing of such great emphasis upon one or two examinations works great hardship on many a man who, at the time of the finals, may be in poor physical condition, or who for some other good reason may do much less than his best work in the final test--the test that practically determines his mark in the course...
...such a plan into operation it might be necessary to raise the dues of these clubs a small amount. But since the members would themselves secure all the advantage, this should be a small hardship. The announcement might, on the other hand, have the effect of materially increasing a club's membership...
...disconnected parts, free from co-operation. Freedom is the chance to relate oneself to the force and activity of the mass without destroying oneself, and does not exist in factories where the operatives beg reformers to let things be for fear that reforms will simply cause more suffering and hardship for them, rather than a comparatively slight sacrifice on the part of the employer...
...Robinson are kept open in the evening, Harvard Hall closes at 5 o'clock and books may be taken out at 4 o'clock. The result is that men who are unable to be at the library in the middle of the afternoon cannot get books. This proves a hardship for most athletes and other men who wish to spend their afternoons in regular exercise...