Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...society who are intending to travel some distance over any of the through railroad lines during the coming Christmas recess. Signatures should be left today. Each member will please place his ticket number and the place to which he will go opposite his name. This will save some labor to those who volunteer to see what can be done in the matter...
...Theatre this evening, and a pleasant time and successful programme will undoubtedly be enjoyed. Every one should attend both as a matter of pleasure and of duty. If the concert is to be a financial success, it is necessary that a readier support be given the two organizations which labor so faithfully for the entertainment of the college, and that a far larger attendance result than is assured thus far by the sale of tickets...
...School, who lately presented him with a "loving cup" of farewell. His letter concludes as follows: "I hope that when another hundred and fifty years have passed away, some descendant of mine will say, as he lifts this cup, and reads the name it bears, 'He, too, loved his labor and those for whom he labored, and the students of the dead nineteenth century remembered their old teacher as kindly, as gracefully, as generously, as the youth of the earlier eighteenth century remembered old Father Flynt, the patriarch of all our Harvard tutors...
...those of the outside world who are wont to rail at the jeunesse doree and the "petted aristocracy" of our colleges, and particularly of Harvard, we commend as a very instructive instance of the much talked of fastidiousness and aversion to manual labor on the part of collegians, the occurrence of last Saturday forenoon on Holmes field, when, manfully seizing shovels and scrapers, two hundred Harvard students applied themselves with a will to the labor of clearing the entire field and benches of snow. This, it should be remembered, was a labor purely voluntary on their part and performed without...
Both Upper and Lower Massachusetts were insufficiently warmed for the examination in Freshman Geometry yesterday morning, and as a consequence those present, in addition to the mental labor of the examination, were obliged to endure the physical discomfort which this neglect entailed upon them. If a little more care were taken by the janitor to have the halls properly warmed it would be appreciated by those who are obliged to take examinations in them...