Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last retain only the necessary number of players. The fault in this method is that many come to college without that education in any branch of athletics which for all the teams - except the class crews - is necessary as a guarantee that they are worth educating. How many who are indifferent players when young, as they develop their bodies, develop also a talent in some branch of athletics. Others who have such talent innate have here no way of discovering their latent power or of educating it if discovered...
...sympathetic nature, arousing it to a better appreciation of the ills of the "working men." The article should be read by all who have any desire to express themselves on the History of the Knights of Labor. Mr. Wright should be congratulated in producing something that is of worth to the student, when so much nowadays is apt to contain no data, only reflections. In showing how sincere and earnest the Knights are, an attitude of ardor and benevolence is created by Mr. Wright, but the details of the strike on the Missouri Pacific last spring, as told by Professor...
...last number of Life contains two jokes from the Lampoon. Is Life worth reading...
...seems to us that Yale has the hardest victory to win, as well as the one most worth the winning. Yale was founded in a spirit of religious sectarianism, if not intollerance, and it must be difficult for her to meet even half way the growing need of American collegiate life, chief among which, of course, is freedom of religious thought. But the demand must be met, or the college must acknowledge herself defeated. This, we are sure, will not be permitted by her undergraduate spirit of pluck and pride...
...that their authority was of a wrong sort. There are two kinds of authority, - the authority of moral guidance, and the authority of repressive control. Which shall college authority be? Authority is necessary, ever-present authority. If the young man's choice is to become a thing of worth, it must be encompassed with limitations. But as the need of these limitations springs from the imperfections of choice, so should their aim be to perfect choice, not to repress it. This moral authority is what the new education seeks. As the elective principle is essentially ethical, its limitations, if helpfully...