Word: labor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Association had reached a fairly fixed state; the membership, the receipts, the expenditures, had all increased to more than two times the Foxcroft amounts. The Board of Directors therefore voted to place the steward's pay as nearly as possible in a just relation to his increased responsibility and labor. The salary voted was an increase of two thirds. And it should be kept in mind that the amount now received by the steward of Randall Hall is only a little more than half the amount received by the steward of Memorial Hall...
...knowledge, he set for his students an inspiring example of thoroughness. His remarkable talent for the clear exposition of difficult subjects was rendered more effective by the methodical planning and careful preparation of his lectures. In them he incorporated the best results of recent inquiry and he spared no labor to keep them fresh in thought and in language. His opinions on controverted questions, firmly held though they were, he never imposed upon others; but he gave his pupils abundant material for thought and encouraged them to draw their own conclusions...
...them the same thoroughness, soundness of judgment, and disinterestedness that distinguished his instruction and his writings. In the conduct of administrative business he was ready to assume responsibility; in this way, and by the careful preparation of the matter in hand, he saved his associates many hours of fatiguing labor...
...standard himself, he was lenient to the shortcoming of the weaker brethen. He was not in good health at any time during his thirty years of service, but he was not in good health at any time during his thirty years of service, but he was always 'patient of labor and prodigal of life.' To the hardy virtues that belonged to him as a New Englander by birth and a Scotchman by descent, he added a delicacy of feeling and a sweetness of nature that hid themselves under a fine reserve...
...Freshman debate last night was won by G. B. Clark, G. H. Fernald and S. A. Greeley who supported the affirmative. The subject for next week's debate will be "Resolved, That labor unions are a benefit to the laboring classes. Affirmative, E. D. Petersen, E. Littig and P. P. Merrill; negative, H.B. Wells, L. E. Moore and H.P. Williams...