Word: worth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...finally released from the insane asylum in which she was confined, and tells a pitiful story of her husband's treatment of her. She says that she will consult some able attorney, and must and will have a divorce, and her children with it, and that every dollar's worth of property taken from her must be accounted for in full...
...Princetonian considers the question of narrowing the College Base-Ball League down to Princeton, Yale, Brown and Harvard. Its statements are worth careful consideration, although we are not sure that they had best be adopted: "The games of the league would be certainly more interesting if Brown, Harvard, Yale and Princeton were the only contestants. If only the last three were in a league it would be very easy to have three games with each opponent. We already have four with Harvard, and the first three could be made championship games, and one other game arranged with Yale. This...
...were worth ten years of peaceful life One glance at his array...
...seems to me an experiment without necessity. We know that if girl students attend faithfully to their duties at their own colleges they graduate accomplished women, and what more do we want? That co-education is declared a success at several excellent institutions does not prove that it is worth while extending it so long as it is fully acknowledged that Vassar and similar places meet every requirement...
...Yale News says that "$20,000 worth of books have been sold in Harvard on the 'Zuizot' plan" - whatever that...