Word: worked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...little, comparatively, of what is to be known, - of the omne scibile, - yet we have reached a stage at which it is desirable for us to take a broad, general view of the whole field of knowledge. This is necessary that we may have some understanding of the work of students in other departments than those in which it holds in the grand whole, as well as to enable us to choose our own studies. Besides, it is just as important, especially in an education professing to be, par excellence, liberal, to obtain a comprehensive view of the whole...
...building as extremely arbitrary, and by others as quite desirable. It seems to us that the occupants of Holyoke will be very much at the mercy of the family of their janitor if the plan is adopted, for, when once domesticated in the building, the family (whether their work is done satisfactorily or not) will probably remain there for a year at least...
Still, I have not repented my course. The result has been beyond my expectations; and I trust that future ages, when they reap the benefits of the culture I have implanted in the wilderness, will see that my work has not been in vain...
...Tutor in German, died in his room in Little's Block at an early hour on the morning of last Monday. He had been suffering from a severe cold for several weeks, - a cold so severe, indeed, that he had been advised by the President to quit work for a while, and to try, if possible, to regain his health. This, however, he was unwilling to do. He met his sections as usual on Saturday morning; and it was only at a late hour on Sunday evening that friends who were with him became convinced that he was in serious...
...Barker was born at South Hanson, Mass., and was 35 years old at the time of his death. He graduated at Brown University in 1861, and during the subsequent years of his life, except when sickness forbade, was engaged either in the work of teaching or in studies which had that work in view. From 1862 to 1866 he was an assistant professor of English studies at the U. S. Naval Academy. In 1867 - 68 he was an instructor in rhetoric at Brown University. He went to Europe in 1866, with the design of fitting himself for the work...