Word: worker
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...year at 7.30 o'clock this evening in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, when Mr. B. C. Marsh will speak on "The Tramp, a Luxury." Mr. Marsh has lived for years among tramps in both Europe and America, studying their habits and character, and is an expert social worker. At the time of the Baltimore fire, he was called to Baltimore in order to get the tramps out of the city, so as to lessen the difficulty of supplying food to the inhabitants. He is a speaker of wide reputation, and an authority on his subject...
...conform to one's resources. A real gentleman will always be considerate of those whom he employs, and above all he will never do anything injurious to a creature weaker than himself. As a democratic gentleman, too, he must be effective, efficient, a power in the world as a worker, an organizer. The gentleman will also be deferential to age, to excellencies, to all things worthy...
...individual work of the members, all have shown plenty of fight and willingness to learn, but a surprising inability to get over old habits of slowness and clumsiness. Hall, right end, is a hard and intelligent worker and covers his end of the line very well, except for a tendency to go in at line plays too soon and thereby to leave the field clear for any sort of fake around his end. He is a hard tackler, but often overruns his man in going down under a punt. Practically the same faults are to be found in Sargent...
Sortwell at quarterback has shown no great promise. He is slow in running and uncertain in catching punts. He is a hard worker, however, and has the confidence of his backs more than any other candidate for the position...
George Foster Peabody, "Southerner by birth, New York banker and financier by profession, wise counsellor and disinterested worker on behalf of education in the southern states...