Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...found than these grounds; and it would seem quite as true that these grounds and buildings would do more good in the hands of the Annex than in those of their present owners, that to the world the "sweet girl graduates" of the Annex would be of more worth than the few embryo apostles of Episcopacy from the Episcopal School. But these ideas are all exceedingly poetic, or at least imaginative, and proleptic. The Annex is poor and the corporation of the Episcopal School is not likely to consent to a sale. The removal of the Annex from its present...
...resent offenses against the tone of the college in character and conduct, we should end by imbuing the very atmosphere with an honor, manliness, pride and delicacy, to which all things could be entrusted, and which would be the most precious thing a young fellow coming here would gain,- worth far more to him than his learning or his degree. There is no reason why, in a little community like this, the tone of character,- the fashionable and conventional tone of character, I mean, for I speak not of the recesses of individuals' breasts-should not be far higher than...
...college career, and the critical nature and power of clear discernment, which seem to belong to college men, and by which a student is so quickly and generally so rightly estimated. Nowhere, more than at college, does a man pass for what he is and for what he is worth. The scholar and the frand alike, the genius and the crank, are very soon detected by student estimation...
...other unfortunate circumstances, the university will realize less than $700,000 from this magniflcent be quest. Amasa Stone gave $600,000 to Adelbert College by direct gift and by bequest. W. W. Corcoran gave $170,000 to Colombian University in money and land. Benjamin Bussey gave real estate worth $500,000 to Harvard University. Samuel Williston, William J. Walker, and Samuel A. Hitchcock gave between $100,000 and $200,000 each to Amherst College. Whitmer Phoenix gave the bulk of his property, amounting to about $640,000 to Columbia College. J. B. Trevor gave $179,000 to Rochester Theological Seminary...
...great addition to the German department. The new courses, Political Economy 10 and History 20, open only to graduates and other students of advanced standing, are destined to be very valuable. They are both intended for "special advanced study and research," and will doubtless be of great practical worth, requiring as they do original work. Such courses must always be regarded as marks of growth and advance in their departments. Prof. C. J. White's new course, Mathematics 12, comprising "Descriptive and Spherical Astronomy," will be welcomed by the students of astronomy and mathematics. Natural History 19, to be conducted...