Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...human life we have Instinct, Enduring Courage and Contemplative Insight. With the help of this last reflective curiosity we study ourselves and our neighbors. So the historical office of philosophers has always been to reward the instincts of their own age. And his labor is not in vain because truth is so many sided that all these various thinkers, representing each so many different views may all see the truth alike, but from different sides...
...high desires, noble discontents and ambitions in you. You know that they are there. But is not the dissatisfaction of your whole life this, that it is not they that get your most devoted thought and eager action? It is "the meat which perisheth" for which you really labor. It is the prize of the moment that sets you all astir, with desire, with indignation, with hope, with fear. All the time off there in the distance on its shrine shines pure and white the real ultimate desire of your nature, adored and treasured, but too far away and cold...
...late Prof. Arnold Guyot is soon to be placed in the Princeton College Chapel. This memorial bust has been subscribed for by an hundred alumni of the college who were former pupils of Dr. Guyot, and who erect this tablet in appreciation of his thirty years of faithful labor at Princeton. The tablet itself will be three-fourths Roman bust, set in an erratic boulder which has been secured from the Mt. Blanc chain of the Alps. It was in the study of the formation and character of these boulders that Prof. Guyot made his most important contribution to science...
...Chaucer's time, much more easily made than now, as there was no dictionary as a standard, and writers often fixed spelling to suit themselves. This of course complicates matters very seriously, and many passages in Chaucer are still doubtful. The paper showed that a great amount of labor must have been spent on the investigation, as individual instances of elision, pronunciation or suppression were tabulated...
...Government interference, as exemplified in the Sherman Bill, is harmful. (a) It strikes at the root of competition. (b) It strikes at the root of self preservation, i. e., preservation against combinations of labor.- Forum, vol. 8. p. 65. (c) It strikes at the root of organization. (d) It strikes at the root of co-operation. (e) All these factors are essential in successful production,-Cong...