Word: earning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Newspaper Men." The circumstance that so many men are declaring journalism a profession in which the work is hard and disagreeable and the recompense is small, is the result of so many being in journalism who are wholly unfit for their positions. Some men, the writer thinks, can earn no more as a journalist than as a mender of roads. Thus ability and adaptability are as important here as in any of the other occupations. Able men are well paid; others do not earn good pay, and very naturally cry out against the profession. It might be added, too, that...
...Armstrong spoke of the necessity of gradually withdrawing the supplies which the Government is now furnishing, and of giving instead an opportunity for the Indian to earn his daily bread on lands which he himself can own apart from the tribal lands. Gen. Armstrong concluded his address with suggestions in regard to the government's policy, and an interesting account of the Hampton Institute and its work...
...reckless company in the heart of the university. A young American, of extremely radical views, entered the university at about this time, and it was his fortune to meet in daily intercourse the most extreme socialistic and nihilistic section. B - , as his name may be called, had determined to earn his own living for the first year, and, as a result, he soon found himself in the Convictorium, - an institution in which three hundred impecunious students received free, but very scanty board. At B's table were only those who had obtained scholarships in Political Economy, and as the socialists...
...remedy of those evils. The club to which the young American belonged, was a veritable centre of political news; and many of the members were active writers for the press, and also corresponded with leading politicians. Writing and teaching was a great resource to the poor students, obliged to earn their own living. They were not mere theorists, but showed a practical earnestness by giving public lectures to workingmen on great economical and political questions. Some gave lectures once a week before the workingmen's societies, while others had classes of working-men in the same subjects. Nearly all were...
...seems bound to come up for discussion ever so often; then for a while it is laid away again. Without doubt the necessary expenses here are greater than at any other college in the country. But this cost is partly offset by the fact that it is possible to earn much more money here than elsewhere; the scholarships are larger and more numerous, and the chances to find tutoring are better. So it often happens that men can get along here with less outside help than at any other college...