Word: manly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surplus unskilled sewing women calls out for remedies. Facts are wanted to show that the idea, that cheap living reduces wages, is a fiction. Are employers forced to take advantage of the over-supply of labor, and would wages fall if attempts were made to save? If a man wants to do something, let him read Mrs. Field's and Mrs. Lowell's books on charity, and then let him go to the Associated charities. He will be brought immediately face to face with the problem of immigration with its ramifications in socialism, intemperance and cheap labor. The people...
...liberal advance has been made at Exeter during the past year. But few changes have been made in the board of trustees and in the faculty during the past year. George S. Morrison, of Chicago, was elected last June into the board of trustees, and he is the only man residing in the West, who has received such a distinction. The faculty remains the same in number but has two new members, Messrs. Fowler and Stone, who have filled the vacancies made by the resignation of Messrs. Kittridge and Getchell. The whole number of students is 323, of whom...
...speaker said that our life with its great diversity of joy and sorrow, opens like the battle of the Syrians and Israelits among the hills and valleys of Samaria. We, like the Syrians, are too apt to disregard the influence of God on the average man of the valley, and we place our attention and admiration upon the fortunate ones who have reached the mountain summits of success. But God rules among the hills and valleys alike and it is only from the later stage of mediocrity that the advance of morality is reckoned...
Twenty-one per cent. of the Divinity School are Yale alumni; Amherst is second with 16 per cent.; Harvard and Williams are next with 8 per cent. Only one man is not a college graduate. The Yale graduates in the Department of Philosophy include 56 per cent. of the entire number...
...Club challenge the Yale Bicycle Club to a roadrace next June, immediately after the final examinations, leaving to Yale choice of distance and course; the number of competitors to be from five to ten. If Yale chooses a course at New Haven they are to allow Harvard $8 per man towards the expenses; but, if a course near Cambridge is chosen, Harvard shall allow Yale $8 per man...