Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shows, however, that every dollar which can really be spared from other things is given to the officers of instruction. But the fact remains unquestioned that, as a rule, the professors and instructors, old as well as young, are not rewarded in proportion either to their talent or their labor. Here and there a professorship is fairly well endowed, but the aggregate income of the college professorship funds is only about $30,000, while the annual payments to the instructors in the college is over $154,000. No one can doubt that if the alumni gave what they can well...
...might not carry away much detailed knowledge; every one after an examination has experienced the shedding from his brain, as from a roof, of the floods of facts that have been poured upon it. But they could and should carry away what was of much more value. The patient labor of college years is the means of securing that training and soldierly discipline which is essential for the victory in the struggles which have to be met. This may not seem to be the case. But it will be found that such discipline will serve us in the hour...
...University and Freshman nines have an opportunity to-day to stop the wild course of victories which has been entered upon by the New Haven athletes this year. In order to accomplish so worthy an object, labor and perseverance of a most exalted kind is necessary, as little short of supernatural power will bring upon Yale to-day the two defeats which we so earnestly desire. Harvard has five hundred more students than Yale. Her facilities for ball playing are better. Boston is the centre of the base-ball enthusiasm of this country, and yet men look for defeat...
HARVARD FINANCE CLUB. - Mr. J. K. Brooks will address the members in U. 13, at 7.30 this evening on the "Labor Question...
...Bolles, who, we believe is the originator of the project and on whom the burden of the labor will fall, we extend, although unbidden, the heart-felt thanks of the students, for we believe that were public opinion capable of expressing itself as one man it would call upon some one to perform that very duty which we have taken upon ourselves...