Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...management of the Athletic Association may once more congratulate themselves upon the successful inaugural of the regular series of three meetings. Every possible preparation necessary to insure an interesting and successful meeting had been taken by President Lowell and his assistants, and the results of their labor were manifested in the admirable seating arrangements, the regularity with which the different events were called and the general excellence of the different contests. It is to be regretted that there were not more entries for the sparring, since this is ordinarily the most interesting feature of the first meeting. What there...
...native talents and feelings, will not do much to ennoble that profession. Besides, according to Adam Smith, it fills the profession with inferior men, who make the competition greater and hence reduce the rewards an able man has the right to expect for his labor...
...doubt of its injuriousness to growing boys, as by retarding the waste of muscular tissue it prevents its replacement by new. When a man has a great mental strain upon him, tobacco is sometimes used with good effect, and also when he does no mental but only severe physical labor. A moderate use of tobacco, said Dr. Sargent, would be smoking twice a day. A smoke in a close room is twice as injurious as a smoke in the open air. A smoke before dinner is much more harmful than one after...
...fact that we are enjoying educational advantages unsurpassed by any in the world, and that there is no place in the world where to enjoy these advantages the student has more pleasant and agreeable surroundings, customs and sports to brace and cheer him after becoming fatigued by hard mental labor. I say the above that all of your readers who chance to run through this article may, as they follow the description of Paris university life, imagine themselves for the time being over here taking a cursory retrospective view of their respective lives at Harvard. They will soon, I think...
...support accorded the Lampoon this year has been lamentably small. Everybody reads the Lampoon, but very few feel it incumbent upon them to contribute to its financial support by actually subscribing to the paper. We feel that this matter has but to be mentioned to be immediately rectified. The labor undertaken by the editors of the Lampoon is already great enough without their having imposed upon them an extra burden of financial responsibilty which should be entirely assumed by the college. In its next volume, if means were but afforded them, the editors already see their way towards greatly improving...