Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...utter and signal defeat; and in such a case, while we should give them full credit for the hard work they have done, we must not content ourselves with patting them on the back and calling them unfortunate victims of circumstances, but we must allow the possibility of their labor having been misapplied, and do our best to find out how it could have been applied better. In thus condemning too enthusiastic praise, we do not in any way favor the opposite extreme, discouragement being to our mind quite as undesirable; but if, in talking to and of our teams...
...large salaries. The crest of this new society is the picture of a goody with broom and duster in her hand getting ready to sweep, which, it will be observed, is true to nature - that being as far as she ever gets. Beneath will be the Latin motto, "Labor omnia vincit...
...most heartily support the Advocate in its editoral article on retiring allowances for professors. It has long been a reproach to Harvard that her professors, when exhausted by a long life of mental labor and research, must expect no calm old age, but must continue on in the dull routine of lecture and recitation, until, like faithful and worn-out horses, they die still in the harness. The recognition by the College that it is a duty to provide for the declining years of those who have spent their youth in her service, not only ought to attract earnest scholars...
...find any pecuniary advantage in guaranteeing proper management for such an exceedingly costly affair as the annual Harvard-Yale race in its present form. The keeping of a clear course on the Thames, at the first trial in 1878, was an unprecedented achievement, implying an amount of preliminary labor never before given to any boat-race arrangements in the United States; and that the running down of the press boat on that occasion (by the only man afloat who refused to obey the managers' regulations) failed to result in loss of life was little less than a miracle. Equally astonishing...
...knowledge to the professor. They seat themselves upon two chairs apiece, using one for their feet, and when they have become quiet, the professor looks sharply at each youth, for the purpose, I am told, of seeing who are honest. He then checks those who are honest, and the labor of learning begins. Great was my astonishment to hear the professor ask questions of the youths. Amazed was I when they gave ready answers in words which seemed wise! The professor took notes of the information they gave him, after each youth's name as he answered, and in this...