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...advises no young man with literary ambitions to go on a daily journal unless the literature of a day's performance satisfies his ambition. The key note of the whole article is struck in the concluding sentences,- "Study, line distinction, the perfection of form, the fittest phrase, the labor limoe and the purgation from immaterialities of ornament or fac, and the putting of what we ought to say in the purest, simplest, and permanent form, - these are what our literature must have, and these are not qualities to be cultivated on the daily press. Of no pursuit...
...sugar industry is highly desirable - (a) Will not be sectional: Cong. Rec. 1889-90. p. 892. - (b) Will be a new industry. - (c) Beets are a good crop for soil; Defender, Apr. 21st, '90. p. 9. - (d) It creates new and large demand for labor, both agricultural and mechanical: Amer. Ec., Sept...
...injures the laborer. - (a) By increasing prices while wages do not increase: Public Opinion, X, 3, 51; Boston Post, Oct. 23, 1890. - (b) By diminishing production it gives employment to fewer hand: Public Opinion, X. 3, 50. - (c) Higher duties increase immigration and intensify competition in the labor world: Forum, June...
...opportunities he now enjoys until many years have passed. The university life is the most precious and valuable gift to the civilized man. The concentrated knowledge of ages past, the experience of many years, a body of learned men, all are here. They are the fruits of the labor, hope and prayer of generations. No class has had the advantage offered to '95 Now is the most important epoch in your lives. The restrictions of school and home life are here cast off and discretion of judgement and self control cultivated. It is the beginning of one's life work...
...university owes an overwhelming debt of gratitude to her graduates-to Mr. George Adams and Mr. Stewart for their work in the foot ball; to Mr. Smith and Mr. Thayer for their work in base ball; and to Mr. C. F. Adams and Mr. H. W. Keyes for the labor they have given to the crew. It is by the union of such men's advice and of the intelligent and earnest spirit, which seems now to be pervading our athletics, that true success shall come to Harvard...