Word: loafer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hour examinations would of necessity be a spur to the habitual loafer, and would certainly raise the standard of college work at large...
...often. There is a course of indolence which hangs over work in art. The artist is compelled to choose between two audiences, the public or his fellow artists. The public are the makers of the artist's notoriety. The great drawback upon an artist's work is the "art-loafer" who talks himself and the artist into notoriety. Too easy publicity prevents the artist of to-day from standing out as did the masters of old. We do not know our great men. In art we want the work of the great artist pointed out to us. We love Routine...
Each student was stirring, loafer, grind...
Each student was stirring, loafer, grind...