Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...never having studied the language, would do well to reflect now whether it would not be better for them to anticipate, by a little extra voluntary labor in the long summer vacation, a required course in a subject which may profitably be studied outside of college. It may be worth mentioning that in the required French, although no marks of credit can be received, marks of censure...
...performed in their Freshman, that of the Junior in their Sophomore, while "during the Senior year the range of work performed here and at Harvard and Yale is too immeasurably great to allow of comparison." With what, pray? Perhaps, however, the editor of the Times did not think it worth his while to take advantage of these extraordinary opportunities...
Whose gold was worth them nothing then...
...brilliant future, at the debates of a society whose only object was exercise in speaking; and Col. Higginson in the Boston Advertiser recently called attention to the excellence which the students at Amherst seem to have gained from somewhat similar practice in their open societies. Is it not worth our while to consider if it would not be advantageous for us to have a society, open to all, for practice in that facile expression of our thoughts which if we lack, it has been well said, so far as others are concerned, we might as well have no thoughts...
...Some time after he became a practising lawyer he was persuaded, much against his inclination, to enter politics, and since then his fame, which began with his oration on the Fourth of July, 1845, has spread over our own country and Europe. Many proofs has he given of his worth as a man; but the people, by the sadness that has filled their hearts at his death, have shown most conclusively that Sumner was truly great...