Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undergraduates care much to escort the Alumni on the 8th of November. The route will be very short, the procession very long, so that the march of the undergraduates will be very brief, hardly worth the trouble of preparation, the love of long waiting, the remaining in Cambridge on a day when the crowd of Alumni will fill all the buildings and deprive you of seeing or hearing speeches, etc. If he undergraduates are content to abandon the escort, I should, for the above reasons, be glad. Yours truly, HENRY...
...systems, are so strong that we are powerless to express our contempt for the mistaken ideas of Mr. Peck. Of the two suppositions in regard to Prof. Peck which we must make in order to explain his article, - either ignorance of his subject or lack of perception of moral worth, - we are by charity forced to adopt the former...
...what value is the study of elocution and what does it accomplish. Mr. Hayes, in his talk to students in Holden Chapel the other day, gave perhaps what should be a sufficient answer, viz.: the skill to so impress our matter that it shall go for what it is worth and be felt and understood. It is said that this is a very easy thing to do. Well, look about and see how few are able to do it. It is a lamentable fact that if one goes to a lecture, to a convention - or even to church...
...Yale and who will probably again enter the contest. The list is truly formidable, to any other university than Harvard. But even Harvard must do all in her power if the cup is again to be brought to Cambridge. Eternal vigilance is the price of victory of any worth. Every man in the university who feels himself able to finish any event respectably should feel called upon to tender his support. With a new list of able and hard working officers for the athletic association, no effort should be lost to surpass even the victory of last year...
...trifle ill-tempered, and resists vigorously an attempt to lift him from his nest of wet moss. The collection of reptilia in the Agassiz Museum, although it cannot be seen under the favorable auspices which our correspondent was as fortunate as to obtain, is nevertheless remarkably well worth a visit, for next to that of the Smithsonian Institution it is the most complete in the country. The HARVARD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY is now turning out so many clever specialists into the ranks of Science that a word or two concerning it may be of interest. It is now a little...