Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Then follow several good pieces of advice on eating : "Regularity is important. Eat until satisfied, and thus avoid lunches. Let the amount of a meal bear some relation to future needs as well as to present appetite. Light conversation and gentle exercise promote digestion, but severe bodily or mental labor retards it. Avoid such labor just before and for at least an hour after a full meal. Eat slowly, masticate well." These and similar maxims are worth being learned by heart and many should profit by them...
...Princeton teams, and this fact alone more than explains their recent defeat of Wesleyan at New York. They fairly played the Connecticut men off their feet in the last three quarters, while at the end they did not seem half worked out, The great disadvantage under which they labor seems to be the large number of new and inexperienced men which they have been forced to employ this year. It is an indisputable fact that experience is a most powerful promoter of success in an inter-collegiate contest, and in foot-ball probably more than in any other game this...
...example, in science or history. In most cases indeed no satisfactory method is arrived at even after four years of experiment. It seems somewhat strange, therefore, when we consider how much stress is laid nowadays upon the use of laborsaving devices in departments both of mental and of material labor, that so little attention on the whole is paid to this subject. It can justly be said indeed that many of our courses are but attempts to train the mind in methods of mental labor and of scientific investigation. An outline and a bibliography of a subject is all that...
...mean rowing, cricket, foot ball, lawn tennis, and other athletic exercises generally. Athletic training turns out thousands of brave, brawny, healthy young Englishmen, who are utterly unable to earn their own living at home, and who, if they emigrated, could, as a means of support, only look to manual labor, in which they would have to compete with Cornish miners, Lancashire navies and Irish peasants...
...various schools and colleges: (4) officers and men in the United States Army or Navy; (5) persons who intend to try any of the Civil Service Examinations; (6) young men or women in stores or shops, or on farms, who are desirous to learn, but cannot leave their labor to attend school; and, finally, persons in any walk of life, who would gladly take up some study for its own sake...