Word: labor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hayes has +++ since his connection with the college in branches of study where his labor has been entirely voluntary. He has always been ready to give his assistance to men trying for the Boylston prizes and to the speakers for the Yale debate this, too, outside of his other voluntary work. And while we call attention to his last reading tonight we would take this opportunity of thanking him for the service he has rendered to the students...
...that labor alone productive which produces utilities fixed and embodied in material objects...
...were be set by a mob of students who had gathered to wish success to the departing eleven. Moments like those take strong hold in our memories; we shall think of them afterwards as among the most in spiring incidents in our college course. Their meaning is deep; the labor of months of preparation has come to the point where it must stand the crucial test of the great struggle for supremacy over a strong but friendly rival...
...free from a certain amount of drudgery, no matter what the spirit may be which prompts them to sacrifice their own pleasure. The rest of the college leave Cambridge for a week of enjoyment. These few remain for hard, conscientious work, and we hope the result of their labor will repay them for their abstinence. Certainly the college owes them a word of thanks and an expression of their appreciation...
Best general references: J. A. Rus, How the Other Half Lives; Octavia +++ Homes of the London Poor; Chas. Booth, Labor and Life in the East of London; J. B. Russel. Life in One Room; No. Am. Rev. LXXIV. 464-180 (April 1852); Scribner's, XI. 676-721 (July, 1892); Forum. V. 207-215. (April, 1887) Nichol, Statistics of Glasgow...