Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...importance of some different regulation in regard to the training of the men. Very little encouragement is offered to our track athletes by the college at large. They are obliged to train at their own expense, and unless they win their events they reap very little honor for their labor. The difficulties with which they have been compelled to contend this year have been greater than ever before. In the absence of a regular trainer, men who wish to compete in any events have been compelled to rely on what instruction and training they could obtain from their friends...
...very important that he should choose the courses for which be is best suited, and in which he is most interested. The bare title of each course as it appears in the elective pamphlet gives him but little satisfaction. The pamphlet that have been prepared by students labor under the disadvantage that they are not authoritative. Besides this they have the appearance of being compiled for the purpose of telling how many hour examinations each instructor requires, and as an attempt to solve that great problem of modern times - the marking system - rather than as a legitimate guide...
...country of professors who are either fourth-rate men, for whom their wretched salaries are full remuneration, or first-rate men toiling for what barely keeps body and soul together, and places them, in an intensely mercantile community, in humiliating contrast with men of nearly every occupation above unskilled labor...
...lecture tonight by Mr. Walter H. Page should be largely attended. The subject is one with which every practical man should be acquainted, as the problem in regard to labor in the South and the manufacturing and social future of that portion of the country is to be one of the important questions of the coming years. Mr. Page is both a keen observer and an able lecturer, so that the subject cannot fail to be presented in an interesting form...
...lecturer, describing the influence of rent on the distribution of wealth. said that rent did not affect the customer, in that it did not affect the price of food, and moreover did not affect the wages of the laborer, understanding laborer in the English sense, as the man who tilled the soil under the payment of the tenant farmer. The laborer's wages were regulated by the supply and demand of labor. The theory of rent could not apply to capital invested in improvements on land. There was no rent paying land, but there was not any no-interest paying...