Word: labor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...moral effect on the laboring classes of labor-saving machines...
This method of writing a dissertation is so slow and painful, that no one who values his vacation will adopt it. A moment's reflection shows that the result is not proportionate to the labor, and that there must be an easier and equally sure way of gaining a prize. I think, in fact I feel sure, that I have discovered such a way; and, since I wish to advance the cause of literature at Harvard, I am willing to make it known. It cannot fail to give satisfaction, for it is the result of a careful psychological study...
...Learn to labor and to wait...
...either stake, or money, or entrance fee, or with or against a professional for any prize, or have ever taught, pursued, or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises of any kind as a means of livelihood; or have ever been employed in or about boats or in manual labor; or be a mechanic, artisan, or laborer." This tells the whole story. The English fear crews like the Watkins Glen, the Nautilus, the Beaverwycks, etc., etc., and have so worded their definition as to exclude these and similar crews from Henley, and restrict the regatta to 'gentlemen' entries, and proves...
...these two squares of metrical lines, wrought in the painful prolixity of the sonnet, a form of verse which suggests a slow minuet of rhythms stepping in measured cadences over a mosaic pavement of rhymes, and which not rarely combines a minimum of thought with a maximum of labor...