Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...book several hundred dollars, which decreased the earning of the man who really did the work. It was a trick of the most selfish nature-one which it is hard to imagine would be perpetrated by any Harvard man who had known how hard men struggle to gain a livelihood here while they are getting their college education...
...After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust...
...employing more men to watch the players," so as to prevent foul and vicious playing. What sane man can dispute President Eliot's conclusion that "a game which needs to be so watched is not fit for genuine sportsmen"? Nor will it be any easier for men whose livelihood or fame or animal gratifications do not depend upon the game, to disagree with his verdict that it is "unfit for college use." In this be speaks as the educator, mindful of his duty to the young men under his care and to their parents; farther on he speaks...
...before or after entering the University, shall have engaged for money in any athletic competition, whether for a stake or money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary emolument or gain whatever, with the single exception that he may have received from the college organization, or from any permanent amateur organization of which he was at the time...
...number of students in the Scientific Shool. a new building to contain lecture rooms, drawing rooms, and collections will be imperatively needed next year. In hard times the Scientific Schools have this advantage over the colleges, that they provide more quickly the means of of earning a livelihood...