Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...blunders in quantity and formation, every one of which requires no further reading than the first book of the Aeneid to set right. After that, considerations of the general style, transference of thought, building up of sentences, are superfluous. There is so much fatally bad that it is not worth asking if there is anything good...
...wasted because people don't find out what they 're fitted for and what they ain't. Now I, sir, who have been a professor of this science for thirty-seven years and eight months will unfold to you, for the paltry sum of fifty cents, truths about yourself worth millions. Here, sir, is the most valuable thing you ever...
...said that our rooms were worth more than those at Tufts. Why? Because the situation of Tufts College is notoriously one of the most dreary and exposed of any that could be found in the State. I said that our rooms were preferable to those at Yale, because there the old buildings were musty and shabby, and in the new ones steam-pipes were substituted for open hearths, which is a disadvantage that all Harvard students will appreciate. No may I ask what there is in these opinions that is "insulting" to Yale and Tufts, or "disgraceful" to myself? Again...
...that "repose of manner" which characterizes a diner-out and benefits one's digestion, nor is our after-dinner conversation of that prudish kind which is heard in some circles of society. Still there are some suggestions, even in a book on the ceremonies of polite life, that are worth following, and one of these is the banishment of "shop" from table conversation...
...response to this offer when first made was so feeble (seven only complying with it) that it was not thought advisable to carry out the plan. But should a sufficient number apply to make this worth while, there would be opened to the students who take the Fine Arts Electives some advantages that ought not to be rejected...