Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...present day the Harvard student finds on reaching home that his fellows from other colleges are already there, and when he starts back, losing, if he lives more than twenty-four hours journey from Cambridge, his New Year festivities, he leaves them rejoicing and mocking behind him. The hardship at the beginning is mitigated for the individual by the practice (authorized by the Faculty in 1877) of giving such additional leave of absence to students as shall enable them to reach home by Christmas eve' (the present interpretation has been extended to the morning of the twenty-third...
...series of six lectures being given this season by Mr. Barr, one of which he will deliver this evening, represents several years of endeavor, accompanied by much hardship and great expense. He has just returned from a six months' trip in Labrador and North Newfoundland, where his work consisted largely of exploration, and where in the course of the summer he covered many hundred miles of seacoast and penetrated far into the interior using reindeer as pack animals. The expedition was mainly in search of young caribou, to be captured alive and brought to a post of the Deep...
...mediocrity." As a result of the last examinations 99 men were relieved from prescription, and of that number 60 paid the additional $10.00 and stayed in the course. These figures show that a great majority of the men wish to continue their training and it naturally seems a hardship to them to have to pay an additional fee as a result of doing good work...