Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first number of The Arbitrator, a journal published by the advocates of arbitration as a means of settling labor troubles, has made its appearance. It is an able paper, and will do much good in the novel field it has chosen...
...parts. While the exercise is within any reasonable bounds, the heart beats increase some twenty or thirty a minute over what they are when the person is at rest; in spite of this increase in number, the character of the beats is regular and even. When the labor is excessive the heart will become tired, the pulsations very rapid, but feeble, and unless exertion is brought to an end mischief will follow. Disease of the blood vessel is, however, of rare occurrence in early life, and any young man who is so affected should never for one instant think...
...would offer analogous opportunities for the development of a man's concentrated energies in a direction where all hopes of gaining money must be thrown aside. Harvard abounds in rich young men whose eyes ought to be opened to the possibilities of entering upon a course of purely theoretical labor, in which they may not only find personal satisfaction, but also gain the gratitude and the esteem of their more unfortunate brother laborers, whose energies are wasted either in the practice of their profession, or in teaching to numskulls the elements of a noble science. A very eminent physician once...
What has become of the movement which Mr. Brooks' lectures on Socialism were to have started. Mr. Brooks ended, it will be remembered by urging Harvard students to take some such interest in the labor question as is taken by university men in England and Germany. That the present is as opportune a time as any for stimulating such an interest, can be seen by any one who has read the daily papers for the past week. Yet so far as accomplishing anything in this direction goes, Mr. Brooks' lectures seem to have fallen flat...
...instructors would of course, be considerable. But the work should by no means be confined to one man. The course should be divided into several parts, one instructor should lecture on English and continental affairs, another on American affairs, and a third on the economic aspects of events. The labor in this way would be greatly divided. Each instructor would lecture once a week, with the privilege of omitting a lecture should there not be sufficient material for a fruitful discussion. Instructors in other departments of the college, whenever anything of especial interest happened in the branch in which they...