Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from the pockets of a class of students who can well afford to pay it, and could it be expended better than by saving the pockets of a class to whom room-rent is an item of great consequence? One class gets an amount of comfort which is fully worth the price they pay; the other class pays a high price for very uncomfortable quarters...
...idea of this communication is worth notice, however. While agreeing with the author of last week's article in condemning the violence of President Buckham's letter, the anonymous writer thinks that the dignity of the President of a University demands an answer characterized with something besides "flippancy" and "pertness...
...years there has been a decided decrease at Harvard of this kind of practical joking. Since the present Board of Editors has been connected with the paper, there has been no other wanton and perfectly objectless destruction of College property. The unusual character of the occurrence makes it doubly worth while to give public expression to what may safely be termed public opinion, and to inform the humorous gentlemen who are presumed to have managed this affair, that, in case of detection, they cannot expect the sympathy of the majority of their fellow-students...
...profession, and is only skin-deep. The curious might go on to analyze it into the effect of sudden accession of liberty upon the "youthful mind," the opportunities for loafing, the half-aimless life of most students, together with the neighborhood of a large city. But it is worth our while to notice that this is a mere surface-view, and is true for the most part only of the entering classes. It is equally patent that there is pretty vigorous-circulation beneath this careless exterior. One must be blind indeed if he do not find in general an eager...
...Relic and Type of our ancestors' worth...