Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges, as commonly conducted, a young man gets only a general training. He is fitted for no specific work, and oftentimes his energies are rather scattered than concentrated there. When he leaves he is ready for no practical employment-perhaps is not so well fitted for useful and profitable labor as he was when he began his college course. After he is graduated he must set himself to learning how to make a living-something he has not studied in college. [New York Sun.] According to the Sun it would be better for young men to devote themselves from early...
Another kind of work of an altogether different character occupies the spare time of many students, viz., literary labor. The least profitable and the least pursued is newspaper work. The college papers are seldom run on a money-making basis. The work which brings the most money into the student's pocket is the writing of special articles and special correspondence for the leading papers of Boston, New York, Chicago, in fact of nearly every city in the country. The New York Herald, World, and Tribune, the Chicago Inter-Ocean and Tribune, the Philadelphia News...
...association is said to have received full control of the grounds on Jarvis and Holmes, the investment does not seem a profitable one. Would it not be wise for some one of authority to let us know what the committee on the constitution has brought forth after months of labor? If the whole matter is understood by those interested, next fall we shall experience no such indiscriminate scrambling for courts as occur annually. Some persons are really curious to know if the Tennis Association will ever relapse into action, and among these is, yours truly...
...extensive labor strike has been inaugurated in Chicago among team owners...
...labor strikes in Western Canada have extended to Montreal...