Word: labor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recent debate in English 5 on "The Advisability of Woman's Suffrage," the question was decided in the negative. Another debate on the Chinese Labor question has recently taken place, and a negative decision was reached...
...this a fatal objection to its adoption here; but there are several advantages to be gained which are worth consideration. This plan would do away with the worry, excitement, and luck which attend every entrance examination. It would remove the feeling that these examinations are the object of all labor, and that after they have been passed there is no more work to be done, - a feeling which is prevalent among the men who come here, and which does not wholly disappear until the Annuals. Again, there would be less of cramming on special points, and of disregard for everything...
...great knowledge of the subject, but who expected, by diligent work, to succeed tolerably well; the examination was of such difficulty that most of them failed, and the result will be that during the second half-year they will either overwork or neglect their work, thinking that labor is of no avail...
...students and professor, but in which no instruction at all is given, so that the work seems thrown away. We refer to Senior forensics. The Senior spends several days in working up a difficult subject as best he can, and hopes when he gives in the fruit of his labor, to learn where he has fallen short and how he might do better. Not a word of advice does he get; on the contrary, another puzzling subject is given him to work up unaided. In themes, it is said, we are to be instructed in style; in forensics...
...question of opening our Library Sunday is to be distinguished from the broad question of opening city libraries on that day. The working-man may, and doubtless does, find in the change from the noisy workshop to the quiet library and from manual to mental labor a real rest. Again, a city library reaches a class of the community which the church has not reached, - a class which needs just such help as a library can give...