Word: loading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noting that the extracurricular achievements of Harvard students were made under a heavy work load--over half the College now tries for degrees with honors--Pusey said that "surely the individuals who achieved this full record were not unconcerned persons, lost in the of their own private affairs and thoughts...
...Government Department has decided against following the Brown Plan for reducing the heavy student work load in the spring of the senior year...
...remarked that the change in the thesis length, however, did not really reduce the students' work load significantly. "The difficulty is not the length of the thesis, but rather psychological factors," he declared, explaining that students who usually have never written a paper longer than 20 pages before often end up in February with an enormous amount of material. Their problem is not that they have too much writing to do, but that they "need more time to think over the problem and cut down on their material...
...even before that happened, he would load more than 100 Negroes on two buses in just one day. He would help dispatch unemployed Negroes from Little Rock to Boston and ask Senate Candidate Teddy Kennedy to care for them at Hyannisport. He would shuttle others off to Richard Nixon with demands to have the former Vice President establish them in his home town of Whittier, Calif...
Belinsky was unbelievably wild all spring, giving up three or four walks an inning, heaving as many wild pitches as strikes, and feeding sprawling hitters a straight dirt diet. Through storms of abuse, he maintained his brash self-confidence, insisting that he was just worn out from a heavy load of winter ball...