Word: labors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...other day he heard the unmistakable knock, and with a groan called out "Come in," when a young but dilapidated female entered. With many tears she told the ancient and somewhat threadbare story of the hard-hearted judge sentencing the innocent husband to the congenial labor of shoemaking for the benefit of the Commonwealth, and leaving her with fifteen small children to provide for. How could the husband of such a devoted woman be guilty of any crime? But Jones was too wise to be caught, and, steeling his heart, he tried to crush her by his formula: "It would...
...money required for boating and ball matters is forthcoming, it can be inferred that if the same energetic means were taken for this department, immediate assistance would undoubtedly be rendered. "Some men have been called on by the Reading-Room officers; but very many have been neglected, and still labor under the delusion that their subscription will appear on the term bills. It is strange that last year we should have been able to keep up a larger number of periodicals than this, notwithstanding the large outlay in fitting up the room." It is the duty of the officers...
...long as these things are so, the student may study conscientiously, but his study will be a task. He may pore over the pages of his classics in the prescribed manner, but he will rise from his labor with no notion of the grandeur of the work which he has read, - only with a vague idea of disconnected subjunctives and confused optatives floating through his troubled and wearied brain...
...soon, is evinced by the glaring faults into which they have ignorantly fallen, and to overcome which often require great exertion. Moreover, some such manual, plain and practical in its explanations, is needed by the various class crews, so that, knowing precisely what is required, they can labor to accomplish that...