Word: workers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...another short man, but strongly made; he has the varying faults caused by a frequent looking out of the boat, and does not row as hard as a man of his strength should. Bow, the lightest man in the crew, is, next to stroke, the hardest worker, and one of the best oars in the boat. A large part of this strong crew is so raw that little reliance can yet be put upon them. The crew is made up as follows...
...energy which would otherwise be spent in overcoming the difficulties of the journey to Parnassus may be devoted to intellectual effort; and, up to a certain point, everything which relieves the mind of the strain of over-exertion and makes life cheerful is so much help to the hard worker. Shut off from society, compelled to pass four years of exhausting, unremitting labor in dingy dormitories and uncomfortable recitation-rooms, the poor student, who depends solely on his own high rank for his daily bread, has few of the amenities of life. After six or eight hours of sustained intellectual...
...come under the same head. Study and gravel-digging are both dubbed "work," and work of any sort is thought "ungentlemanly," - a horrid word, by the way, which you ought never to use. A man who is always ready for everything, however, is rarely suspected of being a worker. And you will find before long that almost everything in college takes place in the evening...
...latter class than to the former, for they endeavor in the last day, perhaps hour or two, before an examination to learn what others have taken care to study as it came. An interruption at such a time is often fatal to the success of the hard worker, and a cause of entire failure to the easy-goer; and since it is mostly through this class of non-workers that the custom is made necessary, it is upon them that we would impress the fact that there are times when it is impossible for a man to study to advantage...
Extra labor may be a pleasure at times when the worker is conscious that the task is self-imposed; but few things can be more irksome than surplus work forced upon us for which we get no thanks, no credit, and which we have to do to make up past deficiencies. Any one moderately wise will be willing to do something in time to avoid this unpleasantness which they must certainly undergo in the future...