Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seen, with possibly the exception of the last piece, all these selections were severely classic, such as Thomas might have put on his own programme. But to do such music perfect justice requires more time, labor, and exclusiveness of devotion on the part of the orchestra than men in college can well afford to spend. Wouldn't it be better then for amateurs to have less of the classic and a little more of a lighter school...
While in the University, knowledge is imbibed with the air one breathes, a mode of study that requires no very great labor. Vacations, which are supposed to last the greater part of the year, are spent in improving the mind by foreign travel. Dignity is given to the place by a set of men called Fellows, who, living at the expense of the College, spend the day in walking about arm in arm, looking immensely important, and occupy the evening in telling stories and drinking immense quantities of Port wine. To gain a fellowship is the aim of every undergraduate...
...orator tells us that "a Longfellow sings in simplicity, and as the belligerent storms gather in the northern heaven, a Stonewall Jackson unsheathes his sacred sword." Both succeeded because "labor, continuous labor, was their motto," and without this no one can succeed. "Cross Plains needed some person to teach her sons and daughters this, and when they employed this modern 'Socrates,' it was the right man in the right place." The modern Socrates is the "stern, inflexible father and teacher, President John M. Walton," whose "fame has spread like the little cloud that arose out of the Arabian deserts...
WHILE thanking you for your courtesy in publishing my letter of the 9th ult., I wish to correct the impression under which you labor, that I compared the modern hydraulic machines with the old fashioned weights, which never, to my knowledge, were dignified with the epithet "rowing." I cited rowing weights at random, as affording an example by which I could illustrate a principle, namely, the mutual effects of mind and muscle...
...very convenient for a lazy man to express the opinion that "grinds" and "grinding" are a bore, but such an opinion, he may be sure, won't in the end be a paying one. A summer vacation, when we get out into the world, and see the earnestness and labor of business men so absolutely necessary for success, is an excellent time for reflection; and more than one of us have in this way become convinced that some false ideas do exist at Harvard. We are soon to become participants in a world which shows no favor, and it would...