Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true that in certain subjects voluntary lectures are always popular at Harvard. Thus Dr. Sargent's and Dr. James' courses always secure satisfactory audiences; perhaps for the reason that they treat of thoroughly practical and important subjects, and in this respect afford a certain relief to routine labor in more abstruse branches. The lectures of the Natural History Club also are always popular. But on the other hand, there has lately been a noticeable falling off in attendance at evening readings, a most admirable institution, as all have acknowledged. And in general, it is always a doubtful experiment here...
...labor troubles at Pittsburg, Pa., have all been amicably settled...
Sergeant Mason, who shot at Guiteau in September last, has been sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, with loss of pay and eight years' hard labor...
...good thing for England if Harold had conquered William in 1066, and so preserved the Saxon power? 3. A comparison of Shakspere's "Antony and Cleopatra" with Dryden's play on the same subject, "All for Love;" 4. The Choice of a Profession; 5. Shall we employ Chinese labor...
...expect a man entirely unaccustomed to labor to do a hard day's work, neither can we expect one whose brain has been comparatively inactive to commence suddenly upon ten hours of work each day. Yet this is precisely what many of us are doing, and when our exhausted mind refuses to go further, we complain of the great amount of work laid upon us, and say that no human being could reasonably be expected to do it, forgetting that in most cases the fault lies in ourselves, and our own faithfulness from...