Word: employs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those to whom the welfare of our leading universities is dear, will hope for President Eliot's success in establishing the correct equilibrium between mental and physical training at Harvard, and great curiosity must be felt concerning the means he will employ.-[Mercury of the College of the City of New York...
...proposed at Yale to employ a regular trainer (professional we presume) for the Athletic Association...
...twenty-five per cent. less than he will charge other parties for the same work, the orders to be left at the office for him. Members are to pay the expense of moving, and in order that the mover whom the society has engaged may have security, those who employ him must pay his charges before the goods are put on sale by the society. Furniture will be received at any time, and after June 4 members can make purchases. There is already quite a demand for second-hand furniture...
...were necessary, this very large sum has been expended with only a partial success as a result. Alcorn, the machinist, has been paid, exclusive of work on launch, about $200. Geo. Smyth has been paid, exclusive of work on launch, about $250. John Smyth, whom it was necessary to employ when Alcorn left in April, has been paid $60. The university coach has been paid $350. Rent on the boat-house to the college, $500. Oars, slides, etc., $170. A new boat, $450. To sum up (approximately true amounts...
...suggested in a Southern journal that a better plan than lies in compulsory education is to employ excellent teachers and to pay them, in addition to their salaries, a percentage on every unwilling or careless child whom they are able to coax into school. It is further suggested that a discount should be imposed on them for every child dropping out of the school, and that their salaries should be discontinued if they fail to keep up their schools...