Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although the majority of us are very likely to undervalue the worth of discussion, which has no immediate result, yet possibly some believe too strongly in the efficacy of talk as talk. Without doubt every member of the committee has much clearer motives in the subject discussed, than he had before. Those who have ever tried to argue over any question cannot deny that debate or discussion brings out and defines their own ideas most marvellously. Undoubtedly, then, the talk has had a very good influence on the committee-men themselves. But as yet the students at large have been...
...change in required Physics, and an exhibition of some enthusiasm among those who have had the courage to take elective Physics, should result in scientific work, greater both in quantity and worth...
...recent action by the students of Yale in petitioning that the hour of morning prayers be made earlier is well worth remark. The evident purpose which has instigated this movement is, that the afternoon hours of each day may be free from recitations, and therefore open to exercise by the college athletic teams. The News takes occasion to boast that "there is no other institution in the country" which possesses "a strong enough love for their college or a general enough appreciation of her needs, to pass such resolutions." Some of our more ardent friends of the prayer petition...
...seem to hold up before us as the highest prize of college life admission to some one society. And we are too often led to look upon society relations purely from the club side. There are other social relations beyond those of the societies which are well worth the student's time. Close societies will always foster cliques, and cliques cannot but deteriorate the general good-fellowship of a class. Every new member of the college while exercising the greatest care as to the class of students with which he purposes to associate, ought to remember that his society life...
...presenting themselves thinking that a place on the team is a mere matter of favoritism. Nothing can be further from the truth for, under the supervision of the H. A. A. and Mr. Lathrop, success in track athletics and a position on the team is a matter of personal worth and perseverance...