Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should be admitted to Harvard without an examination. A similar plan has already been adopted at Dartmouth, and those who seem so desirous that Harvard should be sui generis may consider this a fatal objection to its adoption here; but there are several advantages to be gained which are worth consideration. This plan would do away with the worry, excitement, and luck which attend every entrance examination. It would remove the feeling that these examinations are the object of all labor, and that after they have been passed there is no more work to be done, - a feeling which...
FELTON Hall has undergone several changes of late, and is now a building that offers many advantages. Those entering next year will, no doubt, recognize its worth...
...sports. Those who are acquainted with rackets know what a fine game it is ; and if it is once introduced it is sure to be as popular as any sport we have. The very novelty of the game would insure its success at first, a success that its real worth would afterwards not fail in maintaining...
...however, they were laid with a different food, and I was coming upon a different errand. I was haunted by a suspicion that board at a club was not quite worth while; I had heard that the Memorial tables were not so black as they were painted, after all; and I had come to see for myself if they really had celery and table-cloths...
...there in Success any Indication of the Moral Worth of Conduct...