Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Critic Hume was the only one concerned who seemed to have kept his head. Said he: "I can only say that a man suffering the loss of a close friend [Press Secretary Charles G. Ross] and carrying the terrible burden of the present world crisis ought to be indulged in an occasional outburst of temper...
Other objections, Cole states, include the great financial burden placed on schools which would have to do without most of their students for at least the first years of U.M.S. Also, he argues, many important advances in sciences are made by young men; the Conant plan would cut off two productive and formative years in each student's life...
...help ease its burden on Cambridge, Harvard and the City worked out a "gentlemen's agreement" at the time of the Harkness gift for the Houses. Since the University intended to take a good deal of land off the tax rolls to build Eliot and Dunster Houses, it decided to pay a sum "in lieu of taxes" on the property. One reason for this action was the Council's threat to halt Harvard's buying of high tax rate land along the river. The agreement has carried on and was renewed when the first Plan E Council took office...
...step higher, the Administrative Board is known to favor shifting the burden of proof to those who want a change. Its basic position is that "there are certain rules in decent society which one observes automatically," and that excluding women from men's bedrooms during certain hours is one of these. The Administrative Board is not planning any revisions on its own; it will wait and see what the committee on Houses does, and then make up its mind...
...idea of polities deciding a college appointment seemed so wrong to most people that a drive began to free the University of this burden; after 1866 the governor, the lieutenant-governor, and other state officials stopped serving as ex-office Overseers. From that post-Civil War period on, the Overseers have been elected by the alumni--five each year for six year terms...