Word: laborators
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vice-principal and chaplain of the Institute spoke interestingly on the purpose and result of the course of training employed at the Hampton Institute. The first thing that is impressed on the mind of the student is that manual labor is honorable. Yet in spite of the time spent in manual toil, the progress made by the students has been shown to be greater than any of the schools in the South where time is devoted to study alone...
...Resolved, That the contract system in prisons is detrimental to the interests of labor...
...regretted, however, that the interesting thesis of the title, "Iphigeneia Martyr," is not more consistently carried, and this, perhaps, mars the balance of an otherwise delightful essay. The quotations are all chosen with a keen appreciation of their value in illustrating the subject. The essay is clearly a labor of love...
Every would-be writer goes to Paris, where he meets other congenial youths, by whose zeal his enthusiasm is whetted, and in whose company he cannot but give himself single-hearted to his original ambition. Often poverty compels labor, which is the surest road to success, and in every case there is a subtle influence, that of the still fervent reaction which is fast culminating that engulfs men with the resistlessness of a vortex...
...paradise is but a place of laughter and rest, and all our labor under the sun has for sole object rest and joy, whether of satisfied ambition, or of power...