Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...join, shingles might be made, and sold at the extremely low price of $1.00, including seals, on which could be portrayed the elegant and chaste design of a youth with Harvard hat and stand-up collar diligently occupied in driving a plough, with either "Speed the Plough" or "Labor omnia vincit" inscribed underneath as a motto...
...translation and composition. It is almost essential, either as an elective or extra, for candidates for second year honors in classics. It is not, however, meant to exclude others. The instructor will give as much time as possible to the personal correction and explanation of the exercises. But such labor must be met by corresponding accuracy on the part of the student. Writing Latin is not a mystery that can be communicated. It is to be acquired only by practice, and constant reading of good models. This course, therefore, should only be taken in connection with another elective or extra...
...pain and labor with a mouse...
...food of the reading world grieves them not in the least; nor do they mourn that they have planted no flowers to brighten the garden of literature with blossoms. They appear to have fed on lotus-flowers, so dulled are their senses to the duties and pleasures of labor in the field of letters...
...country the demand for labor is always great enough to draw men away from the pursuits of learning; but now that the supply, at least in the older States, has grown equal to the demand, America must be prepared to take a foremost place in the highest intellectual work of the world. Until within a few years, no attempts have been made to furnish instruction to graduates, not so much because our Universities were unwilling or unable to do so, as because there were few young men who desired it; however, at Harvard, at any rate, the number of resident...