Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deserved tribute to a popular Harvard professor - the edition of Hill's Rhetoric, printed for the blind. The cumbrous volume may be seen on the desk in the reading room at the library and is well worth looking...
...conclusions which I reach are: (1) The monthly statements should not be impugned; they are useful to show how matters are going for the period; but, at the same time they should not be taken for more than they are worth. (2) There is no ground at present for supposing the cost of board is now, or will be in the near future, much above $4.50, or at least...
...fair-minded man who wishes to hear both sides of the question cannot but be turned against a cause that is forced to use such means for its defence. When something is said on the protectionist side which shows a spirit of fair discussion, it may be worth while for our instructors to point out to us through lectures what they believe to be errors in the protectionist arguments, but it would seem almost an insult to our intelligence to point out the absurd falacies in these pamphlets of the Society for the Protection of American Industries...
...allows himself to be ridden over by the roughs of college life for four years is not likely to be able to stand against the bad influences around him in after life. But if he cannot stand against them he is a coward and a poltroon and hardly worth saving. A man's character," he continues, "is formed largely by standing up manfully during his preparatory days. Ten years after leaving college it will be found that the dissipated ones are fast sinking into early graves." After this warning Mr. Cook goes to point out the thoughts and motives...
...professor - not to attend the particular university. In England and America, a student selects the university in which he expects to find the best general efficiency, in which he sees the best scholarship in all the departments, not the one in which some one department may be of surpassing worth and the others of inferior merit. On the whole, the American system in this respect is to be preferred, unless a man desires to study a specialty. It should be the aim of a university first to make all its departments thorough and scholarly and then to collect the brilliant...