Word: laborer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great. Every one of these fifteen thousand books has to be bought by a student, carried to the recitation or a professor's room before a fixed date, looked over by the instructor, and arranged in proper alphabetical order in the examination-room. This certainly involves an amount of labor enormous in the aggregate, on the part of both students and instructors, and this burden has been greatly increased by the new rule requiring the delivery of blue-books to the instructor at least one day before the examination. We know of no reason for requiring the students to furnish...
...only amused by it; the instructors would only have the pleasure of carrying out a long-cherished plan; but the undergraduates would find the Greek play not only interesting or amusing, but also instructive. In fact, were the Greek play nothing more than interesting or amusing, the great labor expended on it might as well not have been undertaken; for pleasure a student can find outside of Sanders Theatre at a much smaller outlay of both labor and money...
...that land for the same purpose in the following spring or fall? We think that he should. For in the case of land not belonging, by natural right, to either of two persons, that one most assuredly has the better claim to its occupancy who has expended most labor and money upon its improvement. The improvements which he makes - in this case the wearing down and smoothing of the land - constitute his property in the land; and of the enjoyment of his property - the result of his labor - he can no more justly be dispossessed by an outsider than...
...room for one year and done nothing towards improving it, is considered to have a prior claim to that room against perhaps a dozen new-comers, who are willing and eager to pay the rent for it, - does it not seem that a man who has really spent labor and money upon improving a piece of ground, has a better claim to it than one who merely is the first to get out his white-wash in the fall or spring...
...left Wight the next morning, having pressing engagements elsewhere. I was very sorry indeed for the necessity which compelled me, for I had found Alfred a very companionable man, entirely frank and unaffected. Those people who think he is a proud and reserved man - a man of few words - labor under a profound mistake: he can be eloquent upon occasion. I cannot forbear relating the delicate compliment he paid me at parting: he said, and I think he meant it, that he hoped I had enjoyed my visit as much...