Word: load
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...natural laws of labor and capital are not to be controlled by human agency. The new or ethical school considers political economy an ethical and moral science. The ground we should take is one between these two. Sympathy, years of agitation, legislature have been the factors in lightening the load of evils with which the workingman is overburdened. The spirit of the "laisser faire" economist is that it is useless to work for a better condition, as the present is the "natural order of things." After science has pointed out certain results, sympathy comes in and teaches...
...practised its songs, numbers of Pierian men joining and giving an impromptu character to the rehearsal; and an odor of smoke fought with the atmosphere for supremacy - and won. About thirty miles this side of Portland a student resident, Mr. F. H. Whipple, '88, introduced to the first car-load the Mayor of that city, who gave encouraging reports of what might be expected. Anxious inquiries as to the quality of the water, an important matter in Maine, brought forth a reassuring answer, and the Mayor left with a cordial invitation to both societies to call at his house...
...rounds of the college buildings, and this notice is to warn students against him. He is well dressed and apparently between twenty-five and thirty years old, and says he came to Cambridge to visit a class-mate, but failing to find him is without money. He offers a load-stone as security for his returning what his victims lend him. Look out for him between...
...races planned a year ahead, men practising an hour every day, rowing on artificial machines, running and exercising with weights and dumb-bells. Then, they trusted to their strength and endurance only, to pull their boat ahead of their New Haven rivals. Now, the Harvard stroke, making a boat-load of men act in as perfect union as a machine, has revolutionized the art of rowing, and has placed it in the best of the sciences...
...over $1100.00 less than the figures recently given, $4975.00, as the actual expenses of the university crew for 1883-84. But subscriptions cannot be lessened if the debt is to be reduced as the managers propose. Although the current expenses are smaller, there is the terrible load of over $2000 of debt to pay off, and men must respond liberally if they wish the managers to keep even with their figures...