Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon which to assume any superiority, and cannot, therefore, speak too encouragingly of victory this fall. Andover is trying, with every possible effort, to perfect the deficiencies of their team by constant training and practice. They are said to spend habitually from two to three hours each day at labor with the leather, and, although they fail to meet the average weight of our eleven, they are taking every precaution to excel on those points in which ours display a weakness. From the present standing of the two rival elevens, neither can boast of superiority, and, for the sake...
...labor at boat house and elsewhere...
...thus enables him to devote more time to playing and to the care of the men while on the field. Although much of this advantage is lost at Harvard, the energy and enterprise of the captain makes up in a great part for their misfortune. Another disadvantage which we labor under is the fact that Harvard begins later than either Princeton of Yale, and on that account loses some valuable practice. However, these disadvantages are but slight when met with a determination to do the best we can, and this determination, we are sure, every candidate for the team will...
...nature of the work for over twenty-one men to take the course comfortably, and as so many men desire to take it, we should like to suggest that two sections might be formed, if the instructor can find time enough to do this. It certainly requires much more labor and time to conduct two sections, but the number in each might be less than the number in the present one, and in that way the additional work would not be as great as at first supposed. We feel sure that if some arrangement could be made to accommodate more...
...fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely made up of grammar and "trot" and that did not teach a man to distinguish the subtle differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ which seldom errs) but by complex rules, committed to memory with much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries ago, it was an ordinary circumstance to carry on a conversation in Latin, and the control which an average student had over the language was astonishing. When, for example, we remember the wonderful "knacd" the poet Addison...