Word: overburden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evil is especially prominent in the Division of History, Government, and Economics; for the theses are more considerable in that division and require more research. While it is undoubtedly true that men can very easily arrange excellent programs which do not overburden them with thesis work in any one year, the lateness in some cases of the fixing of plans for a particular concentration sometimes brings about unfortunate combinations. A man who happens to be taking Economics 2 and 4, together with some history courses requiring thesis work, is inordinately burdened. Yet his late plans for concentration, and his intellectual...
...Office, however, has offered a possible remedy for this unsatisfactory arrangement. Those students who were called away to Lawrence for militia duty in the mid-year period were absent from their examinations. In order not to overburden these men with an unbearable amount f work in June, the Office has decided to allow them to take their make-up papers in the latter part of April. This, we believe, is a system of make-ups that might well be permanently adopted...