Word: labor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great problem of modern society is to find the individual place and ideal for the menial laborer whose life has become simply a cog in some great industrial machine. Machinery should not subordinate humanity. This is the great evil of modern democracy, caused by the tendency to regard labor, not as a pleasure which fortunately affords a livelihood, but as a means of obtaining money alone...
...last report to the Board of Overseers, he deals at length with two questions of great importance to the undergraduates. In regard to three-year graduation, the President believes that the regular College term should be reduced to that period. Such a change would raise the standard of labor in College, prevent the present confusion of the fourth year and "bring earlier into their professions the best trained young men." These results would undoubtedly be well worth accomplishing, but the benefit and pleasure to be derived from spending four years in Harvard College are not things, to be lightly dispensed...
...relative efficiency of American and European labor in manufacturing and industries...
...made upon the reader formulates itself in the hearty wish that the contributors would write in English instead of in dialect. Whether dialect writing is of any philological value may well be questioned; that the reading of dialect is tiresome to a degree is certain. The same amount of labor and skill wasted upon such productions would be better bestowed on efforts to acquire mastery of a true English style and in developing powers of invention. Few are those who can overcome the handicap of dialect and produce a story worthy of the name in the strange forms of tongue...
...course, it can be said that this fourth year in College is as advantageous from an educational stand-point as the other three, but the fact remains that most men who remain for this reason are inclined to take easy courses and get through with the least amount of labor possible. It is a case of choosing the lesser of two evils. To do away with the difficulty some provision should be made by which men who are socially Seniors would be eligible to play on the University teams although they were entered in one of the professional schools...