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From four o'clock until dark Monday, Wednesday and Friday are the hours for regular practice. The skill shown by the riders is such that if the future A. B. will be of no avail in obtaining a livelihood, a place in the lists of the itinerant circus will always be open. There are generally three or four players on a side, but the way in which the ponies gallop about the field makes it seem as if there were many more. Last Friday the play, influenced perhaps by the pressure of a number of spectators, was exceptionally fine. Morris...
...even threats of violence on the part of the laborers who do not know the real cause of the uncertain returns in the industries in which they are employed. A very dangerous element is introduced into our politics at every canvass by the declarations to the laborers, that their livelihood depends upon legislative acts and not their own ability and prudence. Free traders and protectionists both agree on the desirability of a diversity of industries, but differ in the method of obtaining that diversity. A slow and continuous reduction of duties is the end to be kept in view...
...After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the city government; one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the heart of Mr. John Harvard (minister of Charlestown), a godly...
...chair would deal in subjects that are of the most vital importance to every intelligent American of the present day. It would direct intelligently the general course of men who have the profession of journalism in view. Even to those who had no thought of writing for a livelihood, the instruction of such a department would be most valuable for the education of a budding statesman, or of a budding economist, would naturally follow to a large degree the same line of thought as a journalist. It is only of late years that political economy or even the literature...
...college holds any objection to the employment of a trainer for the crews such as Col. Bancroft, nor wouldn't oppose the employment as permanent trainer of the other teams of any satisfactory and competent man, even if a professional who had abandoned his "profession" as a means of livelihood, and in future should exclusively devote himself to teaching out-door athletics under the employment and supervision of the college...