Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...await endowment; among small, the numerous scholarships needed for the promotion of post-graduate and professional study. It may be doubted whether a building is, after all, so durable and desirable a memorial as a fund, the income of which is devoted to an object of permanent interest and worth...
...this promised support, the officers of the association have got the room into running order, and have placed on file an exceptionally valuable collection of papers and periodicals. We are sorry to learn, however, that a very small proportion of the original subscribers have as yet thought it worth while to make good their promises. The continuance of the room now depends entirely upon the subscribers, and they should delay payment no longer...
...achieve all the labors put upon him in the last twelve-month, he will even outshine the great Hercules. The Columbia Spectator, through disinclination, or shall we say inability, has not been so successful as the rest, although some of T. J. B.'s verses are worth the reading. The Athenaeum is in much the same position. Decke writes a great deal, in fact its verses are like its cuts, if there were fewer of them it would be better for them and for us; but what would be left of the poor thing? Pretty much what we receive...
...particular attention of all men interested in economic subjects, to the announcement of the Finance Club regarding the Cobden Club medal. Last year the medal was awarded to Mr. Homer Gage, '82, there being only one other competitor. The medal itself is a very elegant affair, and well worth competing for, but the principal incentive should be the honor which falls to the successful essayist. The club includes among its members some of the most eminent statesmen and economists in the world, and election to the society is generally one of the rewards of success in this competition. Professors Dunbar...
...very few indeed of the Harvard students are intemperate or licentious The Harvard man is really not so very aristocratic after all. At heart he is pretty much of a democrat. It is a common remark in the college that there a man is estimated at his real worth. and all pretense and conceit is covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear any boisterous...