Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contest? And when it came to preparations for a boat-race against a college with which rivalry, if not exactly deadly, was a tradition of long standing, would it be in us to refrain from securing what advice was possible from professionals who make oarsmanship their means of livelihood? Probably not. Certainly while rowing had a precarious existence at American colleges, and there was no large body of graduate oarsmen on whom to lean for advice and from whom to beg the arduous and ungrateful services of a "coach." it was only human that professionals should be paid to look...
...University. The increased powers connected with the new office and the wisdom of the change have been made apparent in the management of petitions for absence and in other ways, but what we particularly wish to notice, is the prospect for helping students in their efforts to obtain a livelihood during the summer months, and further in finding permanent situations for men who are about to leave the University. The college authorities have always done what they could in aiding graduates to get positions as teachers, but now the system has been extended so as to embrace all members...
...college is to be congratulated on the series of lectures which are now being given in Sever Hall. Railroading, the subject of the series, is yearly growing to be of more importance, and many of our graduates are entering upon it as a means of livelihood...
POSITION OF COLLEGE MENin the matter, there is a very erroneous, though popular, impression abroad. College men, certainly Harvard men, do not shun politics as a pestilence, as an unclean thing. They seek for a career which will give them a livelihood; the only offer of politics is uncertainty. It is said that our political affairs are being controlled by the wealthy classes. If that is so, it is because only wealthy men, or men of means, can afford to devote their time to the public service. On the other hand, it is commonly said that the majority of Harvard...
...Adams lectures this evening on railroad management as a profession. Railroading is a means of livelihood which is not generally reckoned among the "professions." But it none the less deserves the attention of college graduates as offering an opportunity for a useful career. The growth of the railroad interests is simply enormous and the business connected with these interests each year assumes more and more the air of a profession. Here a liberal education is just as necessary for success as in any other form of trade and few forms of trade necessitate such a multiplicity of considerations. Many things...