Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deep and earnest thought, results that should go far towards refuting the charge of superficialness and triviality which has been made-sometimes with justice-against the modern literary productions at Harvard. To any one taking up this number of the Monthly it must occur that here is something worth reading-solid, good, careful work, and interesting matter. The editors are to be congratulated upon beginning the new year so well...
...interests of the college and secondarily the class, and it would be well for them to realize the extent of this responsibility. It is Yale's claim that every man who signifies his intention of becoming a candidate for any team shall be given an opportunity to show his worth and that the best men shall be chosen, regardless of position. If the idea once gets a footing that the above is not Harvard's position in regard to athletics as well as Yale's, it will deter many men from making our college their home...
...Last Monday a communication appeared from a man who seemed to favor hour examinations, "especially in hard or doubtful courses." I think that it is in just such courses that hour examinations are most disagreeable. When a man is in a hard course he works for all he is worth, and the time spend in grinding for an hour examination is taken from other courses, which have to be "cut" or neglected. "Bracing" once or twice a year does not do a man any good if he is lazy, and earnest students do not need "bracing." As to getting...
...Yale College Co-operative Society did more than eight thousand dollars worth of business last year...
...HODGES, Secretary.AT the meeting of the Zoological Club this evening, Mr. C. W. Wood-worth will read a paper on "The connection of the Ovary with the Oviduct in Insects." The east door of the new part of the museum will be open from...