Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small sum. Some spend thousands in this way, some hundreds, some fifties, and some only tens; but almost every man, we may be sure, spends all that he can afford. Of course those men who la out small fortunes in the furnishing and decorating of their rooms, do not labor in vain. Rooms of greater luxury and elegance are not to be found anywhere, could not be wished for. Such rooms are well worth seeing. and are pretty sure to display the latest styles in wall papers, draperies and furniture...
Thus it is that college men labor to make their rooms not only pleasant but interesting, and indeed success in this is pretty general. I doubt if there is a room that has not something of originality in it in the line of decoration. Even the most indifferent man will have something which he has labored over and which he wants his visitors to appreciate. Decorative art on college rooms is indeed a branch of art by itself, and finds no parallel anywhere else. College rooms are really an interesting study, and visitors to Cambridge are fortunate if they...
...that building is full to overflowing with valuable matter, some arranged and packed away for want of room to exhibit it and a large quantity in boxes just as it is received. The pieces of skeletons, hundreds in number for each bone, are arranged with infinite care and labor. Several men are constantly employed at this work. Two collectors are kept in the region of the far west where the fossils are found, and are sending in new matter all the time. Prof. Marsh is pushing the work with great enterprise and at great personal expense. He is giving foreign...
...wish that some remedy could be found. This nuisance of climbing stairs would be much lessened if a system of indicators was only in vogue here. Such a system is in use at Yale and in many city business blocks and is of great service as a labor and time saving arrangement. If the college would only supply the basis for such an indicator, a properly numbered frame for each entry, they would last for a long time. The indicator could be in charge of the janitor, who would at the beginning of each year collect the cards...
...unsuccessful attempt to tutor through the required examinations. After all, the new departure is a good one. It is a change which the modified requirements of the present freshman year warranted the faculty in making. It would be manifestly unfair to compel a student to bestow twice the labor up on the attainment of a degree which is required from the most fortunate underclassman...