Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...does not place the money-making power highest or even high among the human tactless. There has undoubtedly been a change in this respect since the war, but, nevertheless, it is in the main true that in Germany no one thinks as yet of estimating a man's worth by the pay he gets, or thinks of measuring the amount of respect due to him by the way in which he lives...
...other dealers have been corrected since the society was established, and in this way it is really a benefit to non-members as well as to members. But the convenience of getting books, tennis goods, etc., from Boston quickly, even if there is not a great saving, is worth considering. As a rule, there is a very considerable saving. The Co-operative deserves greater support than it is receiving. It is soundly established, without doubt, but, though there are now one hundred more members than at this time last year, the past month's business was but little larger than...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Whenever the examination period comes, the undergraduate begins to ponder upon the injustice and hardship of this world and wonders whether life is worth living after all. He constantly notices cases where the greatest injustice occurs and wonders if it is not possible to prevent such things. It certainly does seem hard in the first place that the examinations, which are to give us the main part of our marks for the year, should all be placed at the end of the year when the weather is least suited for studying. In the Law School...
...relates a doleful experience of his as a college student: "During the brief while that I honored the University of Pennsylvania with my presence as an alleged student, it was the habit of my class and myself to invest every morning, each of us, in a quarter dollar's worth of roasted almonds, to help while away the weary hours of college life. Just before ten A. M., when the chapel bell would call us from the Continental, Girard, and other neighboring billiard saloons (the university was then on Ninth street, above Chestnut,) we would proceed to Vansant's, then...
...editorial, the Transcript says: "Here the governor's malice is as ignorant as it is impotent. The State and college were divorced long ago; it has no more exemption from taxation than every other college has, and pays taxes on nearly a million and a half dollars' worth of real estate in this city the same as any other corporation. There is no way for Gov. Butler to begin to make the college pay in loss of money for refusing the degree. The loss of money to be apprehended in the matter was from those who would have withheld intended...