Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have some merit, but of the deepest interest to us, are papers on two of the living questions of the day, factory life, and economy in college work. In the paper on factory life, the writer gives an account of the practice of black-listing mill hands prominent in labor organizations. If the testimony of the unfortunate black-listed men is true (and there seems little reason to doubt it) they have fearful grievances which demand redress. We lose sight of the fact that in these days of striking laborers, that the employers are not always the most upright...
...acknowledged and a change inaugurated. Fall class races are now to be revived with the expectation that they will develope new material. Some of the crews have already been rowing more than a fortnight so that a good, honest race may be expected. The freshmen, of course, must necessarily labor under a great disadvantage, but though their chance of winning is small they may show their worth by rowing a plucky race. To make the affair a success, the college must do its part, by showing an interest, and the best expression of that is a full attendance...
...Would Free Raw Materials be advantageous to Labor and the Industries of the United States...
...labor on courts...
...misfits are always cheap. It requires both faculty and courage, when you have discovered your mistake, to drop your tools and start again. But if the all the doctors, lawyers and ministers who can never get on in their professions would get out and find other fields of labor it would be infinitely better for themselves and the country. A living stream of new applicants for public favor and support pours through the portals of the schools of medicine, law, and theology. It is estimated that doctors are thus manufactured in such large numbers that they form one to every...