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...Goldtooth" Mahoney, town em- ploye)?"He did me dirt. He can loaf somewhere else...
During the two or three weeks before examinations one can loaf or cram probably a little of both. It is true there is work assigned for courses and other work for the tutors. However, if I am not mistaken, the purpose of this freedom is to encourage individual study. It may attempt to produce scholars...
Harvard students now trooping back to Cambridge will find themselves turned loose for the next two and a half weeks, free to read and think and discuss and even to loaf if they think they can get away with it. The faculty is trying the experiment of suspending all classes and most of the lectures between the holidays and midyears. Except for laboratory work and conferences the student's time is his own. The use he makes of it presumably will be shown up by the exams. The idea is that education is too much time-tabled, and that young...
...general of the order, made an oration to the effect that men should not be "scrapped" at 50 but preserved by society for a useful old age. He described Moosehaven, the order's Florida home for aged Mooses, as a place "to live, labor and love" instead of "to loaf, linger and die." He went on for two hours?when a page brought him a note from his wife that it was time to stop...
...meant to proclaim the Christian doctrine that all men are brothers, the hopeful opinion that even the most reprehensible wretch is kin to God. His example is Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires to Paris to live quietly with...