Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good many things of practical, every day importance which they have yet to learn. To those of us who intend to make journalism our life work, a course in contemporaneous history would be of inestimable benefit, and as we are neither few nor far between, our claims are worth considering. Let us hope something will be done in the near future to supply our wants...
...cheerfully grant that undergraduates are often unable to make valuable criticisms about their courses. Yet, on the other hand, it is frequently worth while to look at matters from our point of view. Accordingly we should like to call the attention of the French department to the present needs of many...
...faculty would only undertake it, just as they now manage steam heat in the buildings. The following figures will, perhaps, explain more fully what I mean. There are about three hundred and twenty rooms in the yard; for each room the occupant burns on an average six dollars worth of gas and kerosene per year; those men who save on their gas bills making up the average by means of kerosene. This makes an annual bill to the students of nineteen hundred and twenty dollars. Now for this money what could we obtain in the way of light by means...
...Eighty-six has an unusually large number of men of good literary ability. The example of these men has been a spur, not only to their classmates, but to lower classmen. They have both improved the already existing college papers, and have founded the Monthly, a magazine of uncommon worth. On the whole, it looks as if the present time would figure in tradition, as have those years in the seventies, when the Lampoon was founded...
...were just. A meeting for the free exchange of views between us, and those over us, would result in a more hearty co-operation between the governed and the governors of this university. If nearly ninety per cent. of us are in error about morning prayers, we are surely worth converting to the truth...