Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Review shows the progress of our country, not in literature alone, but in science, art, and politics, and there is scarcely a subject falling under any one of these heads on which the Review has not published one or more articles that are well worth reading. Hitherto the difficulty has been in getting at the articles wanted, - a thing possible only after a long search. In short, the Review was sadly in need of a thorough index. Such an index has been prepared by Mr. William Cushing, of our Library, although whether it ever sees the light will depend...
...much struck with the easy, matter-of-fact way in which the old men do their work as contrasted with the stiffer, more labored, and less efficient efforts of the new men. To the old men rowing seems to be the most natural thing in the world. It is worth rowing a couple of years to acquire that graceful, powerful style and swing which seem to make the severest labor mere pastime. The new men are stout, vigorous fellows; but they bucket, catch behind the others, do not go back far enough, hurry forward again, and waste more strength...
...about the world than they do), that their sense of right will not admit of their pursuing any course that lies between obsequiousness and arrogance. I recognize as plainly as any one can the need of a man's sticking to the right if he would develop a character worth having, but at the same time I am convinced that to speak one's opinion effectively requires a degree of tact as well as determination that few possess. It is not eccentricity which is a matter of reproach at Harvard; it is the lack of manners and good sense...
...that in some future golden age these present defects will be remedied. The first step toward correcting a fault is to call attention to it, and I wish therefore to speak of the facilities afforded us for learning the French and German languages respectively. In regard to the comparative worth of the two languages, no one will deny that to students (as some of us are really supposed by the outside barbarians to be) a knowledge of German has the more practical value. Most of the men who enter the Freshman class know something, more or less, of French...
...perhaps a fact worth mentioning that, although most of the revision was done in England, the idea was conceived and the work begun by Clough here in Cambridge during his brief residence in America...