Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Fifth Special Report of U. S. Commissioners of Labor, 198-236; Forum, XIV, 514-527 (Nov-1892); New Eng. Mag. XI, 785-797 (Feb. '95); E. L. Fanshawe, Liquor Legislation in U. S. and Canada...
...work. His special department was Sanskrit. He was one of the most prominent members of the Oriental Society and of the American Philological Society, of both of which he was president. His genius is plain to all who see through his works the versatility of mind and capacity for labor which they reveal. Dr. Whitney's crowning achievement as a scholar was his Sanskrit grammar, though to the great body of his countrymen the Century Dictionary is his greatest monument...
...work half done. The daily work of the Library is all performed at great disadvantage, and in spite of the recent provision of fourteen class-room libraries outside of Gore Hall, the instruction in the advanced courses of some departments is seriously crippled. There is considerable annual waste of labor, and therefore of money, caused by the scattering of books belonging to the same department, and the lack of proper spaces in which to arrange the accessions in the classes to which they belong. The pressing needs are more stacks for books, enlarged quarters for the public catalogue, a spacious...
...Jesus show his pity for the poor, their hunger, their ignorance, and their lack of leaders? He had no patent remedy, no ingenious social reform schemes. He said: "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into the harvest." That is the only way to save the poor. There must be laborers and the labor is for college men. Will Harvard stand forth to its own glory for truth and justice and pity for the poor, or will it to its everlasting shame shrink back and let the poor take care of themselves...
...advisability of admitting the cheap labor of foreign countries is much discussed. Phillips Brooks always believed that our country was free to all. On the other hand, many maintain that the protection of our industries demands the restriction of immigration...