Word: laborators
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale has permanently returned to the stroke and system I introduced there ten years ago. This year the boating authorities asked me to re-establish it and I have consented to do so. In point of fact, I already have the men in training. I labor under great disadvantage this year. In the first place, Harvard has already been availing herself of the English system, so that we find her today thoroughly familiar with it. They have already an excellent crew in training for this year's race. All of the men, with but one exception, were...
...This energetic work, in the face of adverse circumstances, reflects credit of no low degree on the gentlemen in whose charge has been the management of the association, and we feel sure that we voice the sentiments of the college in tendering them our hearty thanks for their untiring labor...
Yesterday's weather was but an example of the difficulty under which our athletic teams labor in obtaining early out-of-door practice. The majority of our college rivals have already had field practice for a fortnight or more, while we here at Cambridge have not only been unable to secure any reasonable amount of open-air work as yet, but must, it would seem, be even now in uncertainty as to whether we are to get fairly to work during this week. Of course, the obvious result of this hindrance will be to enforce increased activity in practice when...
...self-supporting from the first. As we ascend we see the young more and more helpless, and drawing more and more care from the parent. The next phase of sympathy is that for the tribe, which we reach in the ant. The ants in each hill cooperate in labor; but their sympathy does not extend to ants of other hills. The sympathy for the species is the next step in development. This is best seen among domestic animals in the pig of the southern forests, where a cry of distress from one of them calls hundreds of others...
...market price? Neg. 1725. Did the heathen poets and philosophers derive their best precepts from the writings of Moses and the prophets? Aff. 1747. Do organs excite a devotional spirit in divine worship? Neg. 1730. Is capital punishment as effective in deterring men from crime, as sentence to hard labor for life? Neg. 1769. Is wealth more conducive to virtue than poverty? Aff. 1787. When Balaam's ass spoke, was there any change in its organs...