Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Darkness for sleep and-labor for light...
...notice especially the fast way in which our business men get through life. As though the fund of energy from which they draw were inexhaustible, they overwork the mind by continuous and intense toil; driving through life with an anxious, careworn look, and without consideration, giving themselves up to labor, so that middle age finds them with the work of life accomplished; worn out, and unable to obtain enjoyment from the pleasures which might be theirs. Among one class of students an idea prevails which is productive of no good. Without doubt, honestly feeling that they should improve their time...
Every one knows that there is much more work demanded of students in preparing themselves for their annual examinations than at any other time during the year. This extra labor is required when the energies of the mind are wasted by the tediousness of a six months' drill. This is certainly poor economy. A business man pursuing such a course would be immediately condemned as a bad calculator. It is plain, then, that a remedy for this miscalculation is needed. A short vacation at the time suggested above would go far toward correcting...
...punctual. But why deductions are made from our rank, instead of demerits given to us for disobeying a college rule, is a puzzle. Then, too, a large amount is taken off, - a third of the maximum, some say, - for work which does not involve a third part of the labor requisite to writing the theme originally. That this is unjust, few will doubt...
...somewhat of his interest and attention. Short lessons and clear summaries would do much to make many of our recitation-rooms other than that they are, sleeping-rooms for all who do not expect to be called up. Nor would the professor, it seems to the writer, find the labor of summarizing each lesson more exhausting than the wear and tear of a desultory recitation...