Word: worth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...worth while then to inquire whether this increase in debating enthusiasm outside has been paralleled at Harvard by a like healthy expansion. Are we advancing or standing still? It is hard to give a satisfactory reply to this question. In a small way, perhaps progress is being made, but on the other hand this progress has been painfully slow. As far as the clubs are concerned-and they are the real gauges of undergraduate feeling-there may be a few more individuals engaged, but the work is generally speaking in much the same stage as it was several years...
...progress, and the organizing power of moral impulse is gone. That we are better than people of a century ago we owe to our fathers, who have left us a goodly heritage of sturdy virtues, and this it is our duty to transmit to our descendants with increased worth...
...practice during the last few weeks in preparation for the final game, has shown considerable improvement over its form in the Princeton games, and really deserves all of the encouragement that the undergraduates can give. Moreover, the game today promises to be close and well played, and one well worth seeing...
With the encouraging reports which are now being received in regard to the progress of the crew, it seems well worth while to say a word in regard to the attitude of Harvard men toward the race on the twenty-fifth...
...Botanical Gardens, opposite the Observatories on Garden street, are well worth a visit at this time of the year, and the plants have been arranged with unusual care this spring...