Word: work
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...title, which runs as follows: "A Tight Squeeze; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, who on a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money, as a professional tramp." It is a very ingenious and entertaining bit of work, full of characteristic humor, and at the same time containing much valuable information concerning tramp life, which, if true, points to the solution of many a problem of social science. At the same time there is woven into the narrative a thread of romance which comes to full view...
...hundred and fifty, and so far from being more crowded than at present, will be much less so, as the number present at any one time will be much diminished. This plan is adopted at many of the dining-halls of the English universities, and is found to work very successfully. One breakfast, for instance, might be from seven o'clock until a quarter of eight, and the second breakfast from eight until nine or after. Each person would have to come regularly, of course, at either one hour or the other, but that is better than being obliged...
...learning - having borne office here. He was himself prepared for college, and retained through life the scholarly tastes which would have promised success in a literary career. For the last quarter of a century or more he has filled the office of Secretary, and without assistance till his work outgrew the possible capacity of a single hand or brain. It is difficult to estimate the amount and diversity of the demands upon him in conducting confidential correspondence, in the minute and delicate calculations connected with the rank-list, in constructing tables of college-statistics, in superintending arrangements for examinations...
...doer of this great work, Fate, who metes out justice to all, will not suffer to go unrewarded. The spirits of Stoughton, Hollis, and Holworthy, his precursors in earthly benefaction, now dwell in Elysian fields of perpetual bliss...
FELLOW-COMRADES and Fellow-Associates:- Only twelve months ago the oblong beauties which now clasp their hands of grit to raise this magnificent structure, slumbered in their native beds. Behold the stupendous work organized by the financial ability of one, executed and completed by the physical efforts of many, into a glorious edifice. See this spacious hall, those eastward-looking wings, and a dome more lofty and resplendent than that which looked down upon the chains of Regulus! Although no nosce te is emblazoned on the portal, a symbol more expressive than the Delphic inscription stands out in bold relief...