Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been done; no public interest has ever been awakened. Had the question been taken up as it should have been done, we know of what we speak in saying that a permanent fund of at least $100,000 could have been raised, and not with any great amount of labor...
...recent production of Aristophanes' comedy, the "Birds," in Cambridge, England, seems from all reports to have been a most gratifying success. The mere labor and care that must be employed in putting one of the old Greek plays on the stage is really enormous, and the successful completion of so great a task must be a source of congratulation to all engaged in it. The uniform success which has greeted the production of all the Greek plays brought out in England leads us to ask whether it would not be possible to give another play here at Harvard. The "OEdipus...
...said to average about ten. It is true that the utmost freedom is allowed, the young men can come and go as they please, they are subject to no espionage. But an examination which requires from 8 A. M. to 11 P. M. for completion with diligent labor, is clearly absurd. The general agreement of professors and students leaves no room for question of the truth of these statements...
Long continued mental labor, especially where the feelings are enlisted, makes fearful drafts upon the bodily frame. With sound, sturdy, bodily health, one can not only labor mentally more hours in the twenty four, but can, while working, throw into his task a greater amount of intellectual force. The mind gathers impulse and force from the body whenever the latter is in high health and vigor. When the body is feeble and sickly, the mind is either checked and hampered in its impulses, or, attempting to ride them boldly forward, breaks down altogether. The habit of being beforehand with whatever...
...gardens and that line the banks of the Isis are in their first and freshest foliage. The ivy and the roses are climbing walls of edifices and gardens and are now in full leaf and flower. The lawns and green-swards are as trim as art and labor can keep them, and as soft to the foot-step as velvet, and as the habit of a thousand years could make them. Today the examinations are all over, and the festivities of commemoration have begun. The men have for the most part doffed "the cap and gown," and are abroad...