Word: thankless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be very small. The inevitable result, if but few men compete, is that eighty-six will not have a commencement that will do justice either to the class or to the college. Writing a part in itself may seem an irksome task, but it is not a thankless one. If the indifference in this matter, which seems to have taken hold of college men so strongly, could be dispelled, if the members of eighty-six would initiate the custom of having a likely competition for parts at commencement, there would be in promise for this year and for years...
...idea of teacher as master, and the pupil as a sort of slave long ago passed away, but there still exists, on the part of the one, the feeling that his efforts are thankless and unappreciated, and on the part of the other, the feeling that he is being instructed by a man, who if he does good work, does it with the view of standing high in educational circles, rather than of benefiting those under his charge. The impressions of both are usually equally false, but they will exist just as long as there is a want of sympathy...
...Cambridge and Boston business, not to say work to a large number from the laboring classes. Of these latter one can mention the waiters, the "goodies," the janitors of the buildings, and last by no means least the "mackers." Our position then is certainly an important one. But how thankless men are to their benefactors...
...that is, to make their appointments at once and by getting through with their sittings as soon as possible, to facilitate the work of the photographs and to enable the photograph committee to finish this work successfully and expeditiously. The duties of this committee are arduous and thankless at best, but they can be rendered much less irksome if each member of the class does promptly the little that is required...
...late terrible fire in Milwaukee bears so exact a resemblance to what a spark at the foot of the stairs in any of our buildings might bring to pass that we are compelled to take up our thankless task once more, and ask for fire-escapes on the College buildings. The only reason that can be alleged for not putting them on is the expense which it would entail upon this poverty-stricken institution. Perhaps the Corporation think it good policy to have the story get abroad that Harvard College is economical of everything but the lives of its students...