Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...people end by saying, to inflict this education upon an industrious modern community, where very few indeed are persons of leisure, and the mass to be considered has not leisure, but is bound, for its own great good, and for the world's great good, to plain labor and to industrial pursuits, and the education in question tends necessarily to make men dissatisfied with these pursuits and unfitted for them...
...being unexcelled in this country in Biblical criticism and scholarship. He was extremely devoted to his work and was always ready to lend a helping hand to any scholar without exacting hand to any scholar without exacting any return. The most striking feature of his career is the great labor he has bestowed on the works of other men. As this in most cases received but slight acknowledgment, It is impossible to give a complete list of his works, which are very numerous. He was one of the American committee appointed to assist in the revision of the New Testament...
...fitting men for journalistic work. It is certain that since the growth of college papers, the college graduate in a newspaper office has become less the "horned animal" he was in Horace Greeley's day. At least, his horns are now covered with thick rubber, and not until frequent labor at erasing many choice effusions of the brain, have worn that rubber out are the points allowed to show. By that time the animal generally has strength enough to warrant the display...
...studies into the years of boyhood and earliest youth, as mere unthinking conservatism. President Eliot speaks, of course, with the highest authority; and yet the logical outcome of his views cannot but excite alarm. It is not easy to admit that the favorite modern principle of the division of labor can wisely be carried to this extent in the intellectual world as it is now being carried in the physical world. The fundamental principle on which the great republic of letters is founded, the very idea of the "humanities," as the Times says, and of a broad and liberal culture...
...celebrated Agassiz museum in Cambridge, which probably will not be without influence on the development of museums of natural history in Europe. The genial founder of the 'Museum of comparative zoology,' as he called it, did not intend to have a brilliant exhibition, but a place for serious labor and study. And the great enterprize called into existence in 1860 by Louis Agassiz, has now been nearly completed, according to the ideas of the father, by the energy and the organizing talent of the son. Over three hundred thousand dollars were subscribed in a short time, when Louis Agassiz came...