Word: worker
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work is intended to be a textbook for formal courses in public speaking and discussion; to provide a manual for literary and debating societies, and to give the ordinary worker, not a specialist in the subjects treated, suggestion and assistance. In these three classes the book will be of great value, as it states concisely the principal arguments, pro and con, on a large number of the important topics of the day; that it presents working bibliographies on these topics; and that it gives examples of logical statement, and suggests a systematic method for the treatment of other topics...
Hawthorne as a Worker, By his Daughter...
...Hurlbut says, nowhere is there a more democratic community than this University. Individual worth probably counts for more at Harvard than at any university in the country. A man who comes to Harvard is subjected to a severe test, but if he proves true to himself and an earnest worker, he is immensely respected, and his influence among his fellows is great. The best men, the men who will afterwards become the best citizens, are not those who tell the world of everything they do and everything they think. Harvard men do not wear their hearts upon their sleeves...
...mystic is one who stands in immediate relation with his God. Once called Musionists, the mystics through Emerson's influence came to be called transcendentalists. Among their number are classed men of all ages and all beliefs; Emerson, Jones Very, Thomas a Kempis. The mystic is never the worker, the philanthrophist, the thinker. For active life man must leave mysticism behind him. But to awaken ennobling emotions, to quicken deep and true feelings, one should turn often to the literature of mysticism...
Everyone in the University will be pleased with the choice of Mr. Deland's successor. B. G. Waters is too well known to all who are interested in football at Harvard to need any words of ours. He is a thorough master of the game, and a hard, enthusiastic worker. The football team could hardly be left in better hands...