Word: worth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...really seems as if the quality of what are known as light articles is improving. We are beginning to have something worth reading, and something besides dreams. Especially bright and amusing are "A Summer Concert," from the Yale Record, and "Only a Vassar Girl," from the Columbia Spectator...
...challenge. Now, we are equally surprised by the news that the Navy Directors have withdrawn the challenge to Harvard, and upon their own responsibility. Doubtless the withdrawal of the challenge was proper enough, but the way it was done was not. If the voice of the students is worth anything, it is of importance in such steps as these. The challenge, having been given in the name of the University, required the consent of the University before it could be withdrawn. A further and fitting action on the part of the Directors, and which would show still more clearly...
...doing any work, but spend their time in grumbling at having to come back before the week is out, and in regretting that they have come back. We hope that the powers that be will consider this matter again, and see whether they think the small amount of gain worth what it costs...
...suggestion about University Lectures which was made in the last Advocate is certainly worth the consideration of the Faculty. The failure of these lectures eight years ago ought not to be any objection to trying them again now, as we have become much more of a University since that time. Besides, the lectures which we now desire are of a different character from the former ones. The courses given eight years ago were for the benefit of graduates, and most of them were of a decidedly special character; undergraduates were excluded. The Courses of Study for Bachelors of Arts have...
...thought makes life worth keeping...