Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yesterday, the real and vital importance of this study has been recognized. That such a magazine as we propose to issue will be of value in preserving the best literary work here, and in exciting and stimulating interest in the composition of something of more than ephemeral worth, can hardly be doubted. The English department has assured us of their hearty co-operation, and have promised to aid us in every way possible; and appreciating fully the value of such aid, we have felt doubly encouraged to enter upon our undertaking...
...strict sense to literary subjects. In the Finance Club, the Historical Club, the Philosophical Club, and the various other organizations of the college, as well as in the graduate schools, we believe that work is being done which, if written in clear and good form, is well worth publication. Our aim will be to represent the best thought of the university, as well as the best purely literary work. It may be well to add that while the Literary Monthly is founded primarily for undergraduates, we shall endeavor to publish in each issue an article by a professor...
...college to learn how to box, make punch, and lie to the Dean. The college, of course, has a college yell, a bell ringer, and a young lady in the Dean's office. What college hasn't? And the prayers are voluntary. So, after all, Boston University is well worth attention, thinks the visitor, as he accompanies to her home his fair guide...
...student volunteers. In our own quiet college life there is so little occasion to realize how suddenly and easily the placid cur rent of our existence may be diverted to other and rougher channels that the spectacle of these Canadian students, marching away to the war, may well be worth a passing thought. After all, is there anything in our more peaceful lot that is better than what has befallen these men? They will have a chance, at least, for honor, glory, and all that life is supposed to be lived for. And that is more, perhaps, than many...
...student volunteers. In our own quiet college life there is so little occasion to realize how suddenly and easily the placid current of our existence may be diverted to other and rougher channels that the spectacle of these Canadian students, marching away to the war, may well be worth a passing thought. After all, is there anything in our more peaceful lot that is better than what has befallen these men? They will have a chance, at least, for honor, glory, and all that life is supposed to be lived for. And that is more, perhaps, than many...