Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general reference: Report of Bureau of Labor statistics for Illinois, for 1886, pp. 88-98 and 121-136; or, Second annual report of the U. S. Commissioner of Labor...
DEBATE OF NOVEMBER 21.Question: Resolved, That the contract system of employing prison labor should be abolished...
...hinders the reformation of the prisoner, which should be the main object of penal institutions. (a) by transforming him into a money-making machine. (Illinois Labor Report for 1886, pp. 89 and 90). (b) by the predominant influence of the contractor, whose interest is opposed to reformation. (Ill. Report...
...some unlooked-for rule of novelty, it is not to be wonder that the teams are supported by the college listlessly, and that they themselves play with a feeling of indifference and a proneness to lay their continued defeats at the door of the faculty under whose regulations they labor with difficulty. If the tone of Harvard is today one of indifference, and if that has been brought about by the chain of events as I have related, let there be a sudden check, and the whole system will commence to roll in another direction. A sudden and energetic...
...quote Professor Barnard, "The business of these colleges is greatly overdone, and it would certainly be a material benefit to the educational interests of the country if a large proportion of the existing colleges could be suppressed. From statistics gathered by the undersigned in former years with great labor it was made manifest that while in the last half century the proportion of students in arts in American colleges has been gradually but steadily diminishing, the number of colleges has on the other hand, more than correspondingly increased...