Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ALTHOUGH very old, that story about Mr. Malum is worth repeating:- A friend, meeting Mr. Malum at a famous watering place, asked him if he enjoyed sea bathing. "No; the doctor has forbidden my going into the water." "Then you are malum prohibitum." Not relishing the joke, Malum retorted, "That don't hold good, for my sister bathes every day." "So much the worse, for she is malum...
...metropolis. The ways of Tammany are dark, and its appliances to warp the judgment of men are subtle and powerful. John Morrissey may not have been present at the convention in person, but does any one doubt that his influence silently swayed those delegates? It will no doubt be worth millions of dollars to John Morrissey to have that literary contest held in New York City, where he can lure the unsuspecting lads to his gilded halls...
...what are such men worth? And yet these are the very men to whom is intrusted the charge of making our children good citizens and good men! They are not such themselves, nor can they be, either the one or the other. I cannot but be reminded of the ancient Romans who left the education of their children to their slaves...
...paper published four times a year by some nice little girls in Mr. Perry's Seminary, Sacramento, California. Our first impulse was to drop it in the "dead" exchange basket; but suddenly we came upon this: "We are ready to exchange with all papers of high merit and literary worth." After such readiness, we can't refuse our aid to the education of these maiden Californians...
...different classes now in college, and a knowledge of what the prominent men are doing to get and retain the esteem of their classmates, give reason to assert that the number of both these sets is becoming smaller, or, if preferred, the two sets are discovering each other's worth and adopting each other's virtues. Nowhere is this change more clearly indicated than in Harvard's papers. Compare this year's numbers with those of any preceding year, and the result cannot be otherwise than favorable to the present...