Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...toiling through thousands of pages of strange handwriting in their endeavors to approximate the knowledge of the subject in hand possessed by the writers. Truly, the work of grinding up a course and writing about it for three hours, is but slight, compared with the almost endless labor of correcting the books of several large sections...
...most perfectly, are the most successful, and get the highest pay. Then there are those who fail, because they undertake to do what even their bare knowledge should forbid. Some men, who advertise themselves as tuors, are like that class which seems to think it can get money without labor or ability. They don't recognize that if they want good pay for tutoring they must be able to give someting of value in exchange. Why, there are cases of men who have set themselves up as tutors, yet in the reports of examinations give evidence by their very marks...
...American Revolution will be honorably observed. On this day no recitation will be held, the college will be closed, even University 5 will be silent and deserted. The church bells will toll and college prayers will be suspended, in short there will be such a suspension of work and labor that we doubt the probability of having the walks cleaned of snow...
...last recitation the members of Political Economy 1 were regaled with a clear and lengthy lecture on the old, old subject, cause of so much controversy and confusion to the average student, "A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor...
...delivered on Protective Tariffs by Prof. Robt. E. Thompson of the University of Pennsylvania was very fully attended. The lecture was a statement of certain preliminary matters on the subject of the tariff. The subsequent lectures will be devoted to a general discussion of protection, its effect upon labor, and a refutation of arguments commonly advanced against a protective tariff. The lecturer began by stating certain principles to which all economists agreed, love of our country before all others, the least interference of government consistent with our general welfare, and the need of concentration of industry. Tariffs are based...