Word: hardship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...failed for an office proper (for example, a marshalship) could still come up for a committee place. If all-day voting by the Australian ballot be adopted, this balloting on two different days, while a little more inconvenient perhaps to the tellers, would be no great hardship on the individual elector who who could vote between lectures without sacrifice of time. This must still seem far preferable to the antiquated method of spending an evening, and perhaps a good part of the night in a meeting where speeches must of necessity be forbidden and where most of the time...
...support thereof. The eligibility rules are the growth of the experience of twenty years. Not one has been laid down without sound reason. That which states that no one may represent the University in any contest, unless he is a bona fide student, would have seemed a great hardship twenty years ago. In regard to probation, it has seemed that a man who is eligible to play is just as much at fault if he gets on probation as if he breaks training. Although question has been made with regard to the rules about schedules, the committee thinks them wise...
...increase in the number of students who come here for a single year necessitates the building of a dormitory, with furnished rooms. It is really a great hardship for a man, who intends to stay here but nine months, to be compelled to furnish a room. A new dining hall similar to the Foxcroft Club is also a much needed addition to the University...
...agree with the writer that people from a distance would suffer great hardship from an extension of time. In fact I believe just the opposite; people can not and will not come here from a distance to spend a single day. This opinion is thoroughly impressed upon those of us who live outside of Massachusetts. There must be entertainment extending over several days to bring people three hundred miles...
...waiving these considerations, it seems obvious that the extension would be a great hardship to people living at a distance. The heat of the latter part of June is not the time for a pleasure-trip to Boston. Consequently if such a trip is undertaken by Seniors' friends it must be with the sole purpose of witnessing the Class Day exercises. Cases might be imagined, however, where families would find it impossible to remain for three days, for this purpose alone, in a Boston hotel. Furthermore, business and professional men-graduates-from Boston or from a distance, would in many...