Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...talk pregnant with sound common sense and was of inestimable value to everyone in selecting such courses as would be of the greatest value to him in after life. President Eliot is a man of ideas. Whatever he may have to say upon a subject will be well worth listening to, and every man should regard it as a great privilege to attend his lecture this evening. The lecture is intended for new members of the University and will be of especial interest to them. It is to be hoped that some time this year President Eliot will deliver...
...been attended with so many additions and changes, which has made itself conspicuous for something more than those usual advances resulting from natural growth. If Harvard has been stepping but moderately forward in preceding years, she has been actually striding forward during the past year. It is therefore well worth while to look back over the year, which is now so nearly closed, and note the changes which have taken place...
...required for this purchase is $20,000. In spite of the hard times, we have thought it worth while to make this statement, being not without hope that among the many friends of education, some might be willing to help us in providing a suitable habitation, where our enterprise, so successfully begun, may find room for its natural growth and expansion...
...champion editorial writer in college, or champion literatus, is surely an honor worth striving for. If this offering of prizes is successful in awakening increased literary endeavor, it certainly merits commendation. That it will be commendable can hardly be doubted. Even $10 has been known to appeal to many a brain and pen. While it is pretty generally true that what is written for money is not of the best quality, yet it is also true that what would be written, for money without it is often not written at all. Then, too, in time the poorer motive of money...
...Yale News makes a very indignant plunge at the Advocate's claim of the freshman series for Harvard. Now the whole affair is not worth the controversy that has already been wasted on it, except that if the championship series is awarded to Yale with only one game to its credit, a dangerous precedent is established at once. Now Yale freshmen always have an independent way of acting with our freshmen that is truly original: if they fear a defeat on account of a weak team, they "crawl" as their freshman eleven did last fall, or their '87 nine...