Word: labor
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...fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely made up of grammar and "trot" and that did not teach a man to distinguish the subtle differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ which seldom errs) but by complex rules, committed to memory with much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries ago, it was an ordinary circumstance to carry on a conversation in Latin, and the control which an average student had over the language was astonishing. When, for example, we remember the wonderful "knacd" the poet Addison...
...there is still found some large game, although not in so great an abundance as one who has never visited those sections would be led to expect. Enough large game can, however, be found by one who is determined to get it, and is regardless of the expense and labor involved. If one proposes to do so, it is important that he should make a judicious selection of the rifle on which he is to rely; and on that selection will depend, to a certain extent, the enjoyment and profit of the trip. A person who has never...
...enough no one of them believes that his standard of marking is too easy, when the average marks of his course are no higher than the average in other courses; and even if an instructor knows that students can get 80 per cent. in his course with the same labor which is necessary to get 40 per cent. in another course for which they are equally well fitted, even then the instructor could not be expected to condition half his men. There seems to be no way to avoid this evil so long as in each course the work...
...firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever modifications in English orthography have been the result of a desire to expunge useless letters. The Englishman replies that in these cases we destroy all trace of the origin of the word. But "favor," "labor" and "honor" are pure Latin, and the insertion of the letter "u" is a bit of spurious orthography, while "check" certainly comes near the French source (echec) than when spelt "cheque...
...Although it may not be necessary to have read Beattie's essay on "Classical Education" to be a cultivated man, it is true that nothing will give culture or, indeed, education so quickly as general outside reading. Whether it be supplemented by a college curriculum or manual labor it is the reading of books upon which we must found our cultivation. "Show me his books and I will tell you the man," is so true and invariably reliable that it is strange we do not take greater thought or care about what or how much we read. Some...