Word: shaler
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Shaler's article in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly is indeed interesting. He makes some striking remarks on the difference between the strain caused by mental and physical exercise, showing by the use of statistics how very great is the mental strain under which the teacher or literary man labors. The agriculturist, the artisan and the professional man in general who is not engaged in teaching the youth, are accustomed to continuous toil for at least ten hours daily six days in the week. With the instructor it is quite different; about one third of the year...
...investigation Professor Shaler has found that many laboring men and women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work...
...following are books published recently, now in stock in the book department: "Aspects of the Earth" by Professor N. S. Shaler...
...following are books published recently, now in stock in the book department: "Aspects of the Earth" by Professor N. S. Shaler...
...following are books published recently, now in stock in the book department: "Aspects of the Earth" by Professor N. S. Shaler...