Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preparation for the final examinations is not only thus seriously encroached upon, but those men who have both courses must devote a portion of the already pitiably short Christmas recess to preparation for this needless aggravation-the strongest modern argument against conservation of energy-where an immense amount of labor is expended with no adequate results-the hour examination. It is due to the respective professors to state that they are both postponed examinations. Can they not be indefinitely postponed...
...practical view of their work. The care of the bodily health is of the first importance. More educated men fail of distinction through the want of bodily vigor than from any other cause. The high prizes in any of the professions are not to be won without exhausting labor. We hear much talk about genius. All this is very well in its way, but the most practical definition of genius is, extraordinary capacity for labor. No world-wide greatness was ever achieved except where there has been a prodigious capacity for work...
...probably the most representative of the educational system of Germany. Germany, of late years, has gradually assumed a position at the head of the world in all matters of education, and today her university and school system are looked upon as the best result of the experience and labor of the world's educators. So that testimony from Germany on any question of education is of especial value and interest...
...ensure a thoroughly large and successful institution for the year. The room therefore will be started immediately, with such a list of papers and magazines as the present funds of the association will permit. The directors assisted by such others as have kindly agreed to assist them in their labor, have undertaken to make a canvass of the college to secure adequate support for the rooms. If a sufficient number be secured, as is hoped, it will be possible to have the room open evenings, a measure which we cannot but think will add considerably to its convenience and popularity...
...students of the colleges are engaged in by those who least need them. The amount of strength required to compete in any of the ordinary sports is far above that possessed by the average young man. In reply to the statement that some may benefit by manual labor he says : "Not one in fifty of our schoolboys and girls does a day's manual labor in the whole year round : indeed the majority of them never did one in their lives. They grow, but they do not develop. It has been argued that the system of athletics generally pursued makes...