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Grand Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, is very seriously...
...elder Aggassiz learned something one day in Chicago. He saw a workman place five bricks in a pail even full of water without causing a drop to run over, and the great naturalist handed the man a $2 bill and made a note of the circumstance...
...Master-Workman Pike, who has headed the recent strike of the employees of the Cambridge railway, has resigned his position. Now, perhaps, we shall have some peace in Cambridge...
...death of Mr. Hudson, the great Shaksperian scholar, brings before us forcibly the story of his life. From it we may learn what determination can do. A common workman at twenty two, fitting himself for college in nine months, graduating after a long struggle at self-support, becoming almost at once a famous critic and an authority in his favorite study. What a lesson his life teaches. The death of such a man cannot pass without remark and honor. We owe to his memory at least a word of appreciation, for he has left to us in his life...
Pass on a score of years, and what has our professor become? A workman with a sledge-hammer, trying to drive his hobbies into the heads of his pupils. If he be a chemist, the world to him is one great molecule, whose properties must be found; and he is bent on showering globules of his solution on all who approach him. If he is a zoologist, he regards you as an animal, and discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead...