Word: strains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Among the many aids which the Phillips Brooks House offers is a comparatively little known one, the Text Book Loan Library. This library annually lends books to students for a very slight sum, where otherwise it would mean a considerable financial strain on them...
...revival of the Dramatic Club this evening nearly completes the circle of what may be called the "hobby clubs." In 1916 there were thirty-four of them, most of which went to pieces during the strain of the next two years: the Dramatic Club did not break up, but its activities were suspended...
...price is out of the question. But an increase must not be. This is what the public must demand. At most there can only be a gradual adjustment to the present scale of wage and price. Retracing steps to the former standard of living would provoke a greater strain on society than adjustment to the present. Some agreement should be reached to remedy this discord in our national harmony Needed, a thorough establishment of faith...
...memorial which was planned would have cost in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars, according to estimates by the contractors, and this sum would not only have been a great strain on our class, but would also have subtracted a large amount from the many demands for funds which are now being made...
...Saturday, May 17, at 12.30 o'clock memorial services will be held over the ashes of Richard Norton '92, at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge. Norton died in Paris on August 2, 1918, of pneumonia combined with nervous strain and disappointment...