Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much work in History 13" has made its periodical appearance. It seems that a number of the hard-worked students are trying to get block-reading substitutes for the reference system now in use, which has been perfected by the instructors at a great expense of time and labor. It no doubt is much easier to lounge in an easy chair and read a book or two in connection with a certain course than to sit at a desk in the library or in your own room and learn from consultation with a number of writers what the real ethics...
...Tariff have offered three prizes for the best essays written by seniors of American colleges on the necessity for a protective tariff. This plan will undoubtedly induce many men to study the subject, insomuch as the prizes are of an amount that will repay the successful contestants for their labor. In view of the present condition of the tariff, it is well that such study should be given it. The competition without doubt will be very extended, and the successful papers will be well worth the publication which is designed for them...
...executive committee of the American protective tariff league has offered to the students of senior classes in all American colleges a series of prizes for approved essays on the subject, "Advantages of a protective tariff to the labor and industries of the United States:" each essay not to exceed 10,000 words, and to be sent to the office of the league on or before May 1, 1887, awards to be made June 15, 1887, as follows: For best essay, [$250; second best, $100; third best, $50. And for other essays deemed especially meritorious, a handsome silver medal, designed...
...Book Counter, - B. Wendell: Rankell's Remains; Ely: Labor Movement in America; James: The Princess Cassamassima; Corson: Introduction to Browning; Stockton: The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine; Geo. C. Bush: Harvard; Baker: The Bad habits of Good Society; Whist Scores and Card Table Talk; Atlantic for December, 28 cents. Upton: Standard Oratorios; Mendel: Haufp Tales; Muller: German Classics; Hawthorne: Confessions and Criticism...
...Book Counter, - B. Wendell: Rankell's Remains; Ely: Labor Movement in America; James: The Princess Cassamassima; Corson: Introduction to Browning; Stockton: The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine; Geo. C. Bush: Harvard; Baker: the Bad habits of Good Society; Whist Scores and Card Table Talk; Atlantic for December, 28 cents. Upton: Standard Oratorios; Mendel: Haufp Tales; Muller: German Classics; Hawthorne: Confessions and Criticism...